Systematics of toroidal, helically-coiled carbon nanotubes, high-genus fullernens, and other exotic graphitic materials

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue , 2011, Pages 2373-2385

  Chuang, C ^a   Fan, Y C ^a   Jin, B Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Exotic graphitic materials; Fullerenes; High genus fullerenes; Periodic minimal surfaces; Torus knots

Indexed keywords

3D SURFACE; BUILDING BLOCKES; CLOSED SURFACES; DOUBLY PERIODIC; EXOTIC GRAPHITIC MATERIALS; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; GEOMETRIC MANIPULATION; GRAPHITIC MATERIALS; GRAPHITIC STRUCTURES; HIGH-GENUS FULLERENES; MOLECULAR SURFACES; NONTRIVIAL TOPOLOGY; PERIODIC MINIMAL SURFACES; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SPACE CURVE; TOROIDAL CARBON NANOTUBES; TORUS KNOT;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CURVE FITTING; FULLERENES; GRAPHENE; ISOMERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SURFACES;

EID: 80054785005     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.07.299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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