Archimedean molecule creates brand new compounds - physics-math - 22 July 2011 - New Scientist

Archimedean molecule creates brand new compounds: ...has eight hexagonal and six square faces, by blending two types of carefully-designed molecular "tiles", one made of chemical groups known as guanidiniums, the other ringed by sulfonate groups. These assembled into the truncated octahedron by forming 72 hydrogen bonds.