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Smallest Possible Five-Ringed Structure Created

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LONDON, June 7, 2012 — In honor of the upcoming Summer Olympics, the smallest possible five-ringed structure — just 1.2 nm in width and about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair — has been created and imaged using a combination of synthetic chemistry and state-of-the-art imaging techniques. Dubbed olympicene, the five-ringed single molecule was created by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the University of Warwick and IBM Research two years after the design was entered on ChemSpider, RSC’s free online chemical database of more than 26 million records. “When doodling in a...Read full article

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    Published: June 2012
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