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5. Chuang, C.; Fan, Y.-J.; Jin, B.-Y. Comments on structural types of toroidal carbon nanotubes, arXiv:1212.4567, 2013 submitted to J. Chin. Chem. Soc.
In the first two and the 5th papers, we talked about general structural rules of carbon nanotori and only touched helices briefly. In the next two papers, we discussed very generally how the horizontal and vertical shifts (HS and VS) can be exploited to change the direction of a straight carbon nanotube in order to obtain an arbitrary helically coiled carbon nanotubes. In Chern's Ms thesis, he also showed how to take advantage of HS and VS to create trefoil knots or torus knots in general, which was later summarized in a brief review we wrote, "Systematics of Toroidal, Helically-Coiled Carbon Nanotubes, High-Genus Fullerenes, and Other Exotic Graphitic Materials." (Procedia Engineering, 2011, 14, 2373-2385).
Clover-shaped TCNTs are just a special class of more general curved carbon nanotubes we considered. A simple strategy is to introduce 180 twists along the tube direction (i.e. 180 degree VS) at suitable positions. I got a few nice figures of clover-shaped TCNTs from Chern the other days.
5 comments:
Those are cool! I agree that the star is particularly interesting.
I'm wondering-- the star you show is 5 pointed, as are lots of your torus shapes. But it seems to me that the figure "wants" to be 6 sided, as you're basically working with 60 degree angles. I know beadwork, but not the chemistry of carbon. Is there something related to carbon that leads to using 5 point symmetry instead of 6 point?
Actually, I meant they're 120 degree angles.
In principle, you can have 6 pointed star too. Chemists call this n-fold rotational symmetry. I am kind of lazy, so usually I stop at 5 fold rotational symmetry. At beginning, I want to stop at 3-fold and then decided I should keep going until it becomes a 5-pointed star. I am glad I did it.
But you can also find one or two tori with 6-fold rotational symmetry. In Chuang's thesis, he investigated the stability of TCNT with different rotational symmetry. The results he got is that carbon nanotori with n=5, 6, 7 are usually more stable than other rotational numbers. But the most stable number also depends on some other details.
As pointed out by Bih-Yaw, chemically speaking, the stability dependence of these molecules (if they exist) on the rotational symmetry number varies according to other specific details. In addition, there're still some intriguing differences between the microscopic forcefields and that of between beads in the macroscopic world. The dependence is even related to the methodology one uses to construct the bead structure, e.g. with fish line or elastic string (as Mr. Horibe does).
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