Nanoassembly of a fractal polymer: A molecular "Sierpinski hexagonal gasket"

被引：277

作者：

Newkome, George R. ^{[1
]}

Wang, Pingshan

Moorefield, Charles N.

Cho, Tae Joon

Mohapatra, Prabhu P.

Li, Sinan

Hwang, Seok-Ho

Lukoyanova, Olena

Echegoyen, Luis

Palagallo, Judith A.

Iancu, Violeta

Hla, Saw-Wai

机构：

[1] Univ Akron, Dept Polymer Sci, Akron, OH 44325 USA

[2] Univ Akron, Dept Chem, Akron, OH 44325 USA

[3] Univ Akron, Dept Polymer Engn, Akron, OH 44325 USA

[4] Univ Akron, Dept Theoret & Appl Mech, Akron, OH 44325 USA

[5] Clemson Univ, Dept Chem, Clemson, SC 29634 USA

[6] Ohio Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Athens, OH 45701 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2006年 / 312卷 / 5781期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.1125894

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Mathematics and art converge in the fractal forms that also abound in nature. We used molecular self-assembly to create a synthetic, nanometer-scale, Sierpinski hexagonal gasket. This non-dendritic, perfectly self-similar fractal macromolecule is composed of bis-terpyridine building blocks that are bound together by coordination to 36 Ru and 6 Fe ions to form a nearly planar array of increasingly larger hexagons around a hollow center.

引用

页码：1782 / 1785

页数：4

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