In its most abundant natural form, pure carbon crystallizes in the graphitic structure which consists of planar honeycomb lattices of sp2-bonded atoms called graphene, loosely piled up at a regular distance a = 0.34 nm (see Figure la on the next page).
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Lucas, A.A., Lambin, P., Moreau, F. (2001). Diffraction By Molecular Helices. In: Biró, L.P., Bernardo, C.A., Tibbetts, G.G., Lambin, P. (eds) Carbon Filaments and Nanotubes: Common Origins, Differing Applications?. NATO Science Series, vol 372. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0777-1_13
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