The rally monkey came to national and world-wide attention during the Angels' appearance in the 2002 World Series, again against the San Francisco Giants. In the sixth game, the Angels were playing at home, but were trailing the series 3-2 and facing elimination.
Previously, polystyrene was the largest stable synthetic molecule, at 40 million hydrogen masses. To create their molecular giant, SchlÃ¼ter and his colleagues started with standard polymerisation, in which smaller molecules join up to form a long chain.
With a diameter of 10 nanometers and a mass equal to 200 million hydrogen atoms, the largest stable synthetic molecule ever made, this macromolecule, created at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, paves the way to sophisticated structures capable of storing drugs within their folds, or bonding to a wide variety of different substances.