2015/10/10 by Laith A. Algharagholy, Steven Bailey, Algharagholy, L. +5
Chemistry · Materials Science · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #FOS: Physical sciences #Fullerene Chemistry and Applications #Graphene research and applications #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1512.00055
openalex publication_date 2015/10/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We demonstrate a new technique for creating unique forms of pure sp2-bonded carbon and unprecedented hetero-molecules. These new structures, which we refer to as sculpturenes, are formed by sculpting selected shapes from bilayer graphene, hetero-bilayers or multi-layered materials and allowing the shapes to spontaneously reconstruct. The simplest sculpturene is topologically equivalent to a torus, with dimensions comparable to those of fullerenes. The topology of these new molecular structures is stable against atomic scale defects.