{"id":34510,"date":"2017-02-14T00:23:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T08:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-have-created-a-long-fabled-triangle-shaped-molecule-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:13","slug":"scientists-have-created-a-long-fabled-triangle-shaped-molecule-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-have-created-a-long-fabled-triangle-shaped-molecule-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Created a Long-Fabled Triangle-Shaped Molecule in the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-created-a-long-fabled-triangle-shaped-molecule-in-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have synthesised a strange and unstable triangle-shaped molecule called triangulene, which physicists have been chasing for nearly 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>Triangulene is similar to the \u2018wonder material\u2019 graphene in that it\u2019s only one-atom-thick. But instead of sheet of carbon atoms, triangulene is made up of six hexagonal carbon molecules joined along their edges to form a triangle \u2014 an unusual arrangement that leaves two unpaired electrons unable form a stable bond. No one has ever been able to synthesise the molecule until now.<\/p>\n<p>The elusive molecule was created by a team of researchers from IBM, using a needle-like microscope tip to manipulate individual atoms into the desired format.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-just-created-a-long-fabled-triangle-shaped-molecule\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-just-created-a-l...d-molecule<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have synthesised a strange and unstable triangle-shaped molecule called triangulene, which physicists have been chasing for nearly 70 years. Triangulene is similar to the \u2018wonder material\u2019 graphene in that it\u2019s only one-atom-thick. But instead of sheet of carbon atoms, triangulene is made up of six hexagonal carbon molecules joined along [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58744,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34510\/revisions\/58744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}