Figure 4.

Selected Characteristics of I-Au₁₄₄Cl₆₀^[2+]. (Top) A single strand (black) is identified by continuation of the radial elements identified in Fig. 3 (right). The black circles and green elbows constitute a single closed loop. Thick connecting lines designate the short bonds; the five (5) sets of distinctly coloured spheres mark under- and over-crossings of the other five strands. In side-view, the structure is essentially flat, incorporating the two coplanar regular decagons from the 30-Au shells (Fig. 1, in orange), the nearly 10 nearly coplanar sites from the 60-Au shell (blue in Fig. 1), and the zig-zag pattern of the 60-X sites (10 lime-green elbows) (Centre) Hemisphere view of all six (6) coloured strands, obtained by elaboration from the single strand. All but 24 sites (the two 12-Au shells) of the 204 sites are incorporated into the weave structure. (Bottom) Photograph of a standard woven kickball (Sepak Tetraw in the Thai language) on Texas Grass. It displays the same 6-strand network topology, including chirality, as that identified herein for the I-Au₁₄₄X₆₀ structure, thus serving an aide memorandum to the entire structure.