The world’s most complex molecular knot ties up a record

Metal framework allows triple knot to be created in the lab.

Researchers have tied strings of molecules into a complicated knot whose strands cross one another nine times — an unprecedented feat.

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Nature 561, 288 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06633-5

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