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Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon

Elusive 18-atom ‘cyclocarbon’ could be a step towards molecule-scale transistors.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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Long after most chemists had given up trying, a team of researchers has synthesized the first ring-shaped molecule of pure carbon — a circle of 18 atoms.

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Nature 572, 426 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02473-z

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  1. Kaiser, K. et al. Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay1914 (2019).

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