Tree-like giant is largest molecule ever made

January 10, 2011 | Source: New Scientist Physics & Math

PG5 molecule (Angewandte Chemie)

With a diameter of 10 nanometers and a mass equal to 200 million hydrogen atoms, the largest stable synthetic molecule ever made, this macromolecule, created at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, paves the way to sophisticated structures capable of storing drugs within their folds, or bonding to a wide variety of different substances.