The rally monkey came to national and world-wide attention during the Angels' appearance in the 2002 World Series, again against the San Francisco Giants. In the sixth game, the Angels were playing at home, but were trailing the series 3-2 and facing elimination.
Meet PG5, the largest stable synthetic molecule ever made. With a diameter of 10 nanometres and a mass equal to 200 million hydrogen atoms, this huge molecule festooned with tree-like appendages, paves the way to sophisticated structures capable of storing drugs within their folds, or bonding to a wide variety of different substances.
Invisible to the naked eye, the objects are 12 nm (12 billionths of a meter) wide. That's big for a nanoscale molecule. It's huge, said Hla, an associate professor of physics and astronomy. This man-made fractal molecule resembles a Star of David.This man-made structure is one of the first nanoscale, non-branched fractal molecules ever produced, said Newkome, who is lead author on the study's paper (published online today by the journal Science).ractals are irregular curves or shapes that retain the same pattern when reduced or magnified. The molecule in the study, for example, is composed of six rings, which are made up of six smaller rings, and so on, Hla said. Snowflakes, broccoli florets or tree bark would be just a few examples from nature.