Abstract: MATH/CHEM/COMP 2002, Dubrovnik, June 24-29, 2002

 

 

The electronic and geometric structure

of deformed nanotubes

 

Istvan Laszlo1 and Andre Rassat2  

 

1Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary


2Departement de Chimie, Ecole Normale Superieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231Paris Cedex 05, France

 

 

 

Three-coordinated tilings of the plane by pentagons, heptagons and hexagons are presented and used for the construction of tubular, toroidal and helical carbon structures. Physically realistic 3D geometries are formed from the corresponding adjacency matrices. The electronic structures are determined with the help of a simple tight-binding method.