The
gallery of carbon nanostructures
The Buckminsterfullerene
C60. On the right: C60 as a truncated icosahedron
(green lines).
See also the VRML
version
The
first type of fullerenes was observed in 1985 by D. Croto and collegues
. It consists of exact twelve fivefolds, which can be interpreted
as disclinations (the topological defects of rotation).
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![](kolesnik/c140.gif)
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The
capped "armchair" carbon nanotube |
The
icosahedral (I) fullerene C140. It's lattice is lacking
the mirror symmetry h |
![](kolesnik/c240.gif)
The full icosahedral (Ih) fullerene C240. See also: C60
![](kolesnik/nanocone_top.gif) ![](kolesnik/nanocone_side.gif)
The one-pentagonal
carbon nanocone (top and side view). The pentagonal ring is yellow
![](kolesnik/nanohorn_side.gif) ![](kolesnik/nanohorn_top.gif)
The carbon nanohorn
(side and top view). Five pentagons are marked yellow
The
carbon nanotube with a pair of defects (five- and sewenfold; yellow).
The "armchair" structure (on the left side) is transforming into the
zig-zag structure (on the right)
See
also the movie "Flight throught the tube" (gif,
831 Kb.) and the VRML
scene.
![](kolesnik/c70.gif)
The spheroidal fullerene
C70 (D5h). The plane of the symmetry is shown
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