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Structure, Chirality, and Formation of Giant Icosahedral Fullerenes and Spherical Graphitic Onions

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We describe the topology, structure, and stability of giant fullerenes exhibiting various symmetries (I, I h , D 2h , T). Our results demonstrate that it is possible to create two new families of nested “chiral” icosahedral (I) fullerenes namely C260@C560@C980@C1520@ … and C140@C380@C740@C1220@ …, which exhibit interlayer separations of ca. 3.4 Å. These chiral fullerenes are thought to possess metalliclike conduction properties. We discuss in detail the transformation of polyhedral graphitic particles into quasispherical nested giant fullerenes by reorganization of carbon atoms, which result in the formation of additional pentagonal and heptagonal carbon rings. These “spherical” structures are metastable and we believe they could be formed under extreme conditions, such as those produced by high-energy electron irradiation. There is circumstantial experimental evidence for the presence of heptagonal rings within these spherical fullerenes.

Structural Chemistry 2002, 13(3/4):373–384.

This contribution is part of a collection entitled Generalized Crystallography and dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Professor Alan L. Mackay, FRS.

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We thank CONACYT-Mèxico grants W-8001millennium initiative (HT, MT), G-25851-E (HT, MT), and the European Union grant CNT-NET project contract G5RT-CT2001-05026 (MT), for financial support. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC06-76RLO 1830.

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Terrones, M., Terrones, G., Terrones, H. (2015). Structure, Chirality, and Formation of Giant Icosahedral Fullerenes and Spherical Graphitic Onions. In: Hargittai, I., Hargittai, B. (eds) Science of Crystal Structures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19827-9_10

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