Showing posts with label C60xC20. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C60xC20. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2011

"Super" dodecahedron consisting of 20 punctured C60s

This is the final bead model of a dodecahedron by connecting 20 C60s with three holes described in previous post. The C60 units in this structure is distorted quite significantly.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Dodecahedron consisting of 20 fused C60s (still incomplete)

I am working on a beaded dodecahedral structure which is going to consist of 20 fused C60. The construction strategy is similar to certain bead models made by Mr. Kazunori Horibe. I called those models as "Carbon poti donut (波提甜甜圈)".
In the carbon poti donut, every C60 is connected to two neighbored C60 through two particular 5-fold axes. It is easy to see which two 5-fold axes I am talking about. Here I am trying to connect every C60 to three other C60 such that all 20 C60 locate on the vertices of a dodecahedron. But the bond angles generated by the trivalent C60 do not match with the angle of a dodecahedron. So the whole structure distorts quite significantly.
This model is very similar to a dodecahedron consisting of 20 dodecahedra (Clathrate cluster). I tried to make this model last month. But because each dodecahedron in this model is highly strained, I gave it up.