Compound 1 was originally designed as a mimic of antimicrobial peptides 12. It is a triarylamide comprising two 1,3-diaminobenzene units linked by a 4,6-dicarboxy-substituted pyrimidine and two ...

There are only 13 “Archimedean solids” – a family of symmetrical, 3D polyhedra attributed to the Greek mathematician. Now chemists have made a molecule-scale version of one of these special structures ...

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Soft version of the truncated octahedron, a space-filling polyhedron. This soft cell fills space without gaps but has no sharp corners. The faces are minimal surfaces, represented by soap films.

As well as super-shrinking everyday gadgets such as motors, molecules have also been massaged into shapes that are more mathematical than practical. Michael Ward of New York University and colleagues ...

Material chemists and engineers would love to figure out how to create self-assembling shells, containers or structures that could be used as tiny drug-carrying containers or to build 3-D sensors and ...

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