Geometric modeling of midi-fullerene growth from C32 to C60

Atom physics and physics of clusters and nanostructures
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Axonometric projections together the corresponding graphs for fullerenes are constructed in the range from 32 to 60. The growth of fullerenes is studied on the basis of a mechanism according to which a carbon dimer embeds in a hexagon of an initial fullerene. This leads to stretching and breaking the covalent bonds which are parallel to arising tensile forces. In this case, instead of a hexagon adjoining two pentagons, two adjacent pentagons adjoining two hexagons are obtained. As a result, there arises a new atomic configuration and there is a mass increase of two carbon atoms. We considered the direct descendants of fullerene. C32; namely, C2n where n = 17 – 30.