Triangulene, an elusive open-shell magnetic molecule, is synthesized and characterized by electron microscopy.
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Melle-Franco, M. When 1 + 1 is odd. Nature Nanotech 12, 292–293 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.9
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