Author:
J. Manning Thomas,P. Gramatges Aurora
Abstract
In this exercise, students will learn how to use a modeling program to build a lattice structure. It will teach students how to construct a sheeted material such as graphite, how to construct an intercalated compound, how to construct a fullerene (buckyball, C60) and a aza-fullerene (C48N12), and how to construct a carbon nanotube from chains of carbon molecules. It aims to improve a student’s ability to visualize 3D structures.
Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS
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