Multimedia Release 19-Aug-2019

At Long Last, Scientists Create and Characterize the Structure of 18-Carbon Ring (3 of 6)

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

At Long Last, Scientists Create and Characterize the Structure of 18-Carbon Ring (3 of 6) — image: Cyclo[18]carbon. Bottom: artistic 3-dimensional representation of AFM data (at increased tipsample distance); top: molecular structure model. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 16, 2019, issue of *Science*, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Kaiser at IBM Research-Zurich in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "An sp-hybridized molecular carbon allotrope, cyclo[18]carbon." view more

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