[pics] For Your Chemists: Anthropomorphic Molecules: The NanoPutians

[6Foot2]

http://pubs.acs.org/appl/literatum/publisher/achs/journals/content/joceah/2003/joceah.2003.68.issue-23/jo0349227/production/images/medium/jo0349227n00001.gif

 

These anthropomorphic figures are called, as a class, NanoPutians. Using tools of chemical synthesis, the ultimate in designed miniaturization can be attained while preparing the most widely recognized structures:  those that resemble humans.

 

Other NanoPutians:

 

http://philosophicallydisturbed.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/the-nanoputians.png

Edited December 19, 2012 by 6Foot2

[CyberNerd]

They don't look very stable to me.