Buckyballs, diamonds inspire new synthetic molecule
![buckydiamondoid illustration](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/buckydiamondoid860_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
Square, cage-shaped molecules called diamondoids (left) linked to soccer-ball shaped buckyballs (right) create a new molecule called a buckydiamondoid, center, in this illustration. These new hybrid molecules may be useful for developing molecular electronic devices in the future.
Manoharan Lab/Stanford University