Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The fortune-telling porphyrin

Today I learned that porphyrins have secret desires to be ancient Chinese fortune-telling devices.



Reference: Mi Zhou, Zuowei Li, Tiecheng Liu, Peng Zhang, Dapeng Xu and Shuqin Gao, "Stiffness Tunable Molecular Spring Washers: High-Pressure Raman Investigations on Porphyrin Self-Assemblies", J. Phys. Chem. B, doi: 10.1021/jp910676y

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