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Molecules Spontaneously Form Honycomb
Science Daily is reporting that University of California Researchers have discovered a new process in which molecules assemble into complex patterns without any outside guidance. From the article: "Spreading anthraquinone, a common and inexpensive chemical, on to a flat copper surface, Greg Pawin, a chemistry graduate student working in the laboratory of Ludwig Bartels, associate professor of chemistry, observed the spontaneous formation of a two-dimensional honeycomb network comprised of anthraquinone molecules."
Honeycombs Big?
Or is it some techincal term?
Almost good enough spelling for Digg.
AT&ROFLMAO
We keep telling ourselves, that SIZE isn't important....
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
...by Post Cereal.
carbon spontaneously forms many different shapes, not the least of which are C60, nanotubes, and graphite
There's also that obscure form called diamond.
Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
They left the experiment a little to close to a potatoe. (All members of the nightshade family have a missing vowel in their outer shell.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
As cool as this is, what part of this is "news?"
You must have missed this part:
Obviously this is big news to farmers who raise little tiny chickens.
"Spreading water, an inexpensive and common chemical, on to a flat surface, Dan East, a Slashdot reader with Excellent Karma, observed the spontaneous creation of individual droplets as the molecules self-organized themselves to form larger complex structures."
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
Stop the presses, armchair chemist poo-poos academic research. Slashdotter to be consulted before all new federal grants.
XML causes global warming.