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The World's Tiniest Synthesized Braid (1 of 6)

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The World's Tiniest Synthesized Braid (1 of 6)

image: A 819 knot. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 13, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.J. Danon at University of Manchester in Manchester, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Braiding a molecular knot with eight crossings." view more 

Credit: Stuart Jantzen, www.biocinematics.com


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