Trefoil Mobius strip approach

Figure 6. The Mobius strip approach (three half-twists) to a trefoil knot.

As seen above, the randomness of the Mobius strip approach and numerous difficult steps in Schill s directed approach were highly limiting factors in a trefoil knot synthesis. Both these major obstacles might be circumvented by the use of an unambiguous templated synthesis procedure. 

Fig. 7 Depiction of the Mobius strip approach to a trefoil knot...

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