Earlier this year we reported that scientists in China had built molecular Sierpiński triangles from small aromatic building blocks. Now, another team in China has constructed fractal triangles on the molecular scale and this time, they’re much more robust. Read more in Chemistry World»
You can read the original journal article in ChemComm – it’s free to access until 28th September:
On-surface construction of a metal–organic Sierpiński triangle
Qiang Sun, Liangliang Cai, Honghong Ma, Chunxue Yuan and Wei Xu
Chem. Commun., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC05554G, Communication