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The cuboctahedron consists of copper paddle-wheel nodes and carborane\u2013isophthalic acids<\/span><\/p>\nScientists in the US have made a molecular species containing\u00a0the highest number of boron atoms ever recorded in a crystallographically characterised molecular species<\/a>. The unique supramolecular cuboctahedron contains 240 boron atoms and was synthesised by\u00a0Chad Mirkin<\/a>\u00a0and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, via coordination-driven assembly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n http:\/\/www.rsc.org\/chemistryworld\/2013\/07\/nanostructure-highest-number-boron-atoms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The cuboctahedron consists of copper paddle-wheel nodes and carborane\u2013isophthalic acids Scientists in the US have made a molecular species containing\u00a0the highest number of boron atoms ever recorded in a crystallographically characterised molecular species. The unique supramolecular cuboctahedron contains 240 boron atoms and was synthesised by\u00a0Chad Mirkin\u00a0and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, via coordination-driven… Continue reading 240 boron atoms in a single molecular species<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,76,56,146,50,143,144,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}