珠璣科學(Zhu-Ji Science)

In the November issue of Science Monthly (科學月刊), I wrote the sixth article of the Zhu-Ji Science series (珠璣科學). This one is about the particular problem of "30 small balls cover a big ball" from the Japanese temple geometry.

金必耀, 左家靜, 珠璣科學─日本寺廟幾何與正十二面體串珠模型 (Zhuji Science - Japanese temple geometry and the bead model of regular dodecahedron), 科學月刊 2012, 33(11).

珠璣科學(Zhu-Ji Science)

I have written four articles in Chinese about beading and science for the local science magazine "Science Monthly (科學月刊)" now.

1. 金必耀、左家靜, 珠璣科學—八字編與正多面體（Figure eight stitch and regular polyhedra）, 科學月刊 2012, 33(1), 72-73.
2. 金必耀、左家靜, 珠璣科學—串珠碳六十（Bead model of Buckyball）, 科學月刊 2012, 33(3), 230-233.
3. 金必耀、左家靜, 珠璣科學—串珠碳七十與含端蓋碳管（C70 and end-capped carbon nanotubes）, 科學月刊 2012, 33(5), 386-388.
4. 金必耀、左家靜, 珠璣科學—串珠碳八十與螺旋碼（Spiral codes and seven isomers of C80）, 科學月刊 2012, 33(7), 556-558.

In the next article, I will talk about the connection of bead model to the valence sphere model of chemical bonding.
5. 珠璣科學 ─ 化學鍵與串珠價球模型 (Chemical bonding and the bead valence sphere model)

Construction procedure of C60 (Japanese translation)

Prof. Sonoda made a nice Japanese translation of the detailed construction described in the supporting information of the article, Molecular Modeling of Fullerenes with Beads, J. Chem. Edu 2012 , 89 (3), 414–416.", by Prof. Cuccia and me.



Also, here is the original English version of the first page, the next two pages are the same.

Japanese translation of 珠璣科學─串珠碳六十

Prof. Inoue (井上吉教) of Hikone prefecture university and one of his Chinese students kindly translated my article "珠璣科學─串珠碳六十" (The Science of Beading - Beaded C60) with Dr. Tsoo for the March issue of the "Science Monthly (科學月刊)" magazine.



(New post, scanned images 6/12/2012)


Prof. Inoue also made a few fullerenes as shown in the following pictures. I didn`t check them very carefully. Possibly, one of them is the icosahedral C80 and another is the cylindrical shape C84. There seems　to be a fullerene belonging to D_3h point group.

珠璣科學—八字編與正多面體

I am planning on writing some articles in Chinese about beading and science for the local science magazine "Science Monthly (科學月刊)". The first article entitled "八字編與正多面體" (Figure Eight Stitch and Platonic Solids) in this series "珠璣科學 (Zhu-Ji Science)" has just shown up in pp. 72-73 of the January issue.

According to the ancient Chinese dictionary Shuōwén Jiězì (說文解字）, published in the early 2nd century around the Han Dynasty, Zhu(珠）means pearls of mussel (蚌之陰精); Ji(璣) means nonspherical beads or small beads (《釋文》璣，珠不圓也。字書云：小珠也。). Usually, Zhu-Ji (珠璣) are used together to mean very precious things or pearls of something.

I will talk about C₆₀ and its bead model in the next article.