Chemists Set New Guinness Record for Tiniest, Tightest Knot
I hope the former record-holders aren’t too cross: a team of researchers recently made the smallest, tightest knot yet known, landing themselves top spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.Modern Yet Retro | JBL Spinner BT ReviewThe knot is composed of 54 atoms, chained together and ensnared in a trefoil, the simplest nontrivial knot. The knot has no loose end; it is a continuous loop, passing through itself in mesmerizing arcs. The team’s work describing the self-assembled “metallaknot” was published in Nature…