Molecular Wheels Need Hubs to Form

Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 15:07 in Physics & Chemistry

A team of chemists has unraveled the process by which a complex nanoscale structure self-assembles, finding that a wheel-shaped molybdenum oxide molecule takes shape with the help of a transient scaffold at its center. [More]

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