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Unlocking the geometry of bonding

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A high-symmetry tetrahedral cage made using smaller tripodal cages at its four vertices shows a high surface area for CO2 and SF6 adsorption.

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Fig. 1: The development of high-symmetry molecular structures.

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Li, F., Ke, C. Unlocking the geometry of bonding. Nat. Synth (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-024-00539-z

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