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Molecular Models Underfoot
Posted by Ivan Amato on September 10, 2009 in Chemistry is Everywhere
I rolled into Washington D.C.’s Union Station on an Amtrak train at around 9 p.m. on Tuesday night, after a full day of reporting in Philadelphia for a story that will appear in a future issue of C&EN. Waiting to transfer to the local Metro for a ride to my neighborhood in Silver Spring, MD, I looked down at a tiled platform that I had seen hundreds of times. With graphene chemistry so ascendant these days, when this platform comes into view, I can’t help but think of it as graphene writ large. Now I will be on the lookout for other renditions of molecular structures inadvertently there in our constructed landscape.
Graphene You Walk On (Amato/C&EN)
3 Comments on Molecular Models Underfoot
By MelodyV on September 11, 2009 at 7:22 am
Looks like this graphene has a chewing gum addition. I look forward to your next chemical structure catch.
By Maureen on September 11, 2009 at 12:54 pm
The hexagon is everywhere in nature.
By Cancel on September 14, 2009 at 2:12 am
Yes, it’s funny how nature has built a tiled platform that is formed of hexagons.
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