Happy Friday everyone, and welcome to this week’s batch of research highlights.

Fullerenes:

Buckyballs act just like giant atoms, complete with s, p and d orbitals that are bound to the sphere’s hollow centre

Antitumour agents:

Hiding a potent, but insoluble, anticancer drug inside a cage complex represents a new approach to the use of inorganic chemotherapeutics

Self-assembly:

Discrete complexes comprising stacks of up to nine aromatic molecules can be assembled in one step from a few simple building blocks

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Neil

Neil Withers (Associate Editor, Nature Chemistry)