image: Cyclo[18]carbon. Bottom: artistic 3-dimensional representation of AFM data (at small tip-sample 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
Credit: IBM Research