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VERY LARGE Cn — EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY

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Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean Energy Hydrogen Systems

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All known methods for fullerene synthesis produce a variety of Cn molecules, indicating that fullerene with other sizes than C60 exist and can be stable. However, the range and variety of those molecules is largely unexplored. It is also unknown if there is an upper limit for n. The size and the shape of those molecules become crucial when they are surrounded by a gas or a liquid since the molecules are exposed to elevation force and pressure. The resistance to pressure and the elevation force are the highest if the shape is spherical. Spherical or almost spherical shape can be achieved if the carbon network includes a certain amount of defects (pentagon-heptagon rings). Those spherical structures can be expected since computer simulation of the Cn growth predicts that the number of the defects is significant during the synthesis. In this paper we show that spherical Cn structures, which are large enough to be lighter than air, can potentially withstand atmospheric pressure.

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  1. Central Laboratory for Solar Energy and New Energy Sources — Bulgarian Academy of Science, Boul. Tzarigradsko shausee 72, Sofia, 1784, Bulgaria

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  1. Institute of Physical Chemistry of PAS, Warsaw, Poland

    Bogdan Baranowski

  2. Institute of Hydrogen and Solar Energy, Kiev, Ukraine

    Svetlana Yu. Zaginaichenko

  3. Institute for Problems of Materials Science of NAS, Kiev, Ukraine

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  4. International Association for Hydrogen Energy, University of Miami, Miami, USA

    Ayfer Veziroglu

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Koprinarov, N., Konstantinova, M. (2008). VERY LARGE Cn — EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY. In: Baranowski, B., Zaginaichenko, S.Y., Schur, D.V., Skorokhod, V.V., Veziroglu, A. (eds) Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean Energy Hydrogen Systems. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8898-8_15

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