Croatica Chemica Acta, Vol. 70 No. 2, 1997.
Original scientific paper
Buckyball Super-polyhedra
Hongyao Zhu
; Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77553-1675, USA
Douglas J. Klein
; Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77553-1675, USA
Abstract
The possibility of interlinking buckminsterfullerene molecules via
c-bonds to form novel nanostructures is considered. That is, each
»node- of such a super-structure is its elf a buckyball. Particular attention is directed to regular polyhedral nanostructures as well as the
self-similar truncated icosahedral nanostructure. Asystematic consideration of geometric constraints is presented, and an informative perturbative development of the n-MOs and their eigenspectra is made.
A truncated icosahedral construction yields a buckyball buckyball,
and iteration of this construction leads toward a buckyball fractal.
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Publication date:
1.5.1997.
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