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Molecular Apple Peels
Author(s) -
Garric Joachim,
Léger JeanMichel,
Huc Ivan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200462898
Subject(s) - supramolecular chemistry , ribbon , crystallography , tetrahedron , nanotechnology , chemistry , materials science , chemical physics , composite material , crystal structure
It's a wind up : Peeling the skin of an apple into a single helical ribbon gives a sort of shell that can be wound back around the apple. Such a shell can be constructed at the molecular scale using a helix with a reduced diameter at both ends which behaves as a capsule and entraps a small guest such as water (see picture).
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