NanoPutians
Published on November 1, 2003
Browsing through the recent literature, I came across a Journal of Organic Chemistry article by Stephanie Chanteau and James Tour from the Center for Nanotechnology at Rice University. “What the heck?” was my initial response. No, their research didn’t deal with the Heck-reaction, but with anthropomorphic molecules, which they call “NanoPutians”. At first, I was sure that this is a Halloween-inspired joke, but reading through the experimentals they really have put some effort into this. I can only hope that no NSF/NIH-grant money went towards this endeavor. Check out their article…