Assembling molecular Sierpiński triangle fractals

Jian Shang1, Yongfeng Wang2, Min Chen3

  • 1SKLSCUSS, BNLMS, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

Nature Chemistry
|April 23, 2015
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