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Procedure to Determine the Structure of Three-Horned Multishell Fullerene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Yukihito Kondo  and
Kunio Takayanagi
Yukihito Kondo
Affiliation:
Takayangi Particle Surface Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 3-1-2, Musashino, Akishima-shiTokyo196, Japan
Kunio Takayanagi
Affiliation:
Takayangi Particle Surface Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 3-1-2, Musashino, Akishima-shiTokyo196, Japan Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 226, Japan
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Fullerenes have many families such as simple ball-shaped fullerenes, nanotubes, and onions. Additionally torus, Y-shaped particle, and graphitic network with periodic holes or dimples have been theoretically anticipated. The presence of various shapes in fullerenes is mainly attributed to the combination of five-membered and seven-membered rings in addition to six-membered rings composing ordinary graphite crystal. The five-membered rings are necessary for positive curvature of the fullerenes, while the seven-membered rings for negative curvature. Experimentally, the negative curvature has been restricted so far to the joint between cone and tube in nanotubes and the spiral tubes. We have found a new type of multishell fullerenes with negative curvature which consist of three horns protrude into three-fold symmetric directions, referred as three-horned multishell fullerene (THF) in this report, using a high resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM). Here, we first describe the formation briefly and secondly concerned with procedure to determine the structure of the THF.

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Nanocrystals and Nanocomposites: Novel Structures for Catalysis, Electronics, and Micromechanics
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 419 - 420
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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