Chemistry researchers create self-tying knotted molecules in the lab

(Phys.org)—A group of chemistry researchers working in a lab at Cambridge University have succeeded in causing a group of molecules to form themselves into trefoil knots. The team was working on combinatorial chemistry experiments, they note in their paper describing their achievement in the journal Science, when they noticed the spontaneous formation of knots.

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