10.1126/science.271.5252.1077
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Abstract

Two hot areas in chemistry are dendrimers—highly branched polymers that are synthesized in stages from a core, in a manner resembling a snowflake—and self-assembly, the synthesis of molecules through molecular recognition. These ideas have been combined by Zimmerman et al. (p. 1095) in a report in this week's issue of Science . Bell discusses how these authors have produced dendrimers from smaller subunits in one step to create nanometer-scale particles.

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Bell, T. W. (1996). Molecular Trees: A New Branch of Chemistry. Science, 271(5252), 1077–1078.

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@article{Bell_1996, title={Molecular Trees: A New Branch of Chemistry}, volume={271}, ISSN={1095-9203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.271.5252.1077}, DOI={10.1126/science.271.5252.1077}, number={5252}, journal={Science}, publisher={American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)}, author={Bell, Thomas W.}, year={1996}, month=feb, pages={1077–1078} }