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Self-assembling Sierpiński triangles

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Defect-free Sierpiński triangles can be self-assembled on a silver surface through a combination of molecular design and thermal annealing. Three-fold halogen-bonding arrays and precise surface epitaxy preclude structural errors, thus enabling the high-level complexity of these supramolecular fractal patterns.

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Figure 1: Representations of the Sierpiński triangle fractal pattern.

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Tait, S. Self-assembling Sierpiński triangles. Nature Chem 7, 370–371 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2238

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