A 54-atom golden knot is tighter than the knots in DNA and comes close to the theoretical limit of knot size. Reading time 2 minutes I hope the former record-holders aren’t too cross: a team of ...

Serendipity, along with the hydrophobic effect and a relatively simple chemical building block, has led to the creation of the world’s first molecular knot that forms in water with stereochemical ...

Whether it was in your shoelaces or earbud cables, we’ve all accidentally tied knots that we can’t untangle – but we don’t expect to win any world records with them. Now scientists have done exactly ...

A team of chemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and a researcher from the University of Western Ontario have made a groundbreaking discovery: the world's ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For decades chemists have tried to make smaller and smaller molecular knots in an ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Imagine a knot so small that it can’t be seen with the naked eye. Then think even smaller. Chemists have tied together just 54 atoms to form the smallest molecular knot yet. Described January 2 in ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan has developed a way to create catenanes and a molecular trefoil knot out of para-connected benzene rings. In their paper published ...

The researchers achieved the record by using molecules of two gold atoms. Scientists have created the smallest and tightest knot ever, breaking a Guinness World Record. According to New Scientist, the ...