Rolling up of graphite sheet: Energetics of shell formation
| dc.creator | Rotkin, Slava V. | |
| dc.creator | Suris, Robert A. | |
| dc.date | 2000-07-14 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:38:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:38:13Z | |
| dc.description | The energetics of transformation of a planar fragment of a graphite monolayer into a spherical cluster is studied. The path considered is that a flat cluster rolls up into a segment of a spherical shell. The energy landscape of the process is presented. A simple model, formerly invented for calculating the carbon nanocluster formation energy, is used to evaluate the energies of intermediate states. Although the spherical-shell closed cluster has the lowest energy, curving of a plane fragment into a segment has an energy barrier. The barrier height goes to zero for clusters with the number of atoms greater than some $N_{\rm th}$, for which the cluster size is found analytically. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, 2 PS figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007259 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007259 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/16587 | |
| dc.subject | Materials Science | |
| dc.subject | Statistical Mechanics | |
| dc.title | Rolling up of graphite sheet: Energetics of shell formation | |
| dc.type | text |