Chemists weave granny and triple trefoil knots

Granny knot

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Interwoven grids folded into mechanically interlocked molecules, including a super-coiled three-trefoil

A molecular granny knot and a twisted linked figure-of-eight knot have been made by catenane wizard David Leigh and his team from the University of Manchester, UK.