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Carbon Nanotube

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Nanotubes are members of the fullerene structural family, which also includes the spherical buckyballs. The cylindrical nanotube usually has at least one end capped with a hemisphere of the buckyball structure.

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Carbon Nanotube

Nanotubes are members of the fullerene, structural family, which also includes the spherical buckyballs. The cylindrical nanotube usually has at least one end capped with a hemisphere of the buckyball structure.

The path to building the carbon nanotube can be seen in the C60, to C70, to the C80 D5d buckyballs, the way each layer of 10 new carbon atoms / vertices are added stretch the buckyball into a nanotube.

To my knowledge this is the first carbon nanotube MOC.

The Home of Republic of Texas Navy in LEGOs is right here on MOCpages.

enjoy

kurt

Notes:
RTS - Republic of Texas Ship
RTN - Republic of Texas Navy
LNA - Lego Naval Architect

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Chris Donofrio
February 15, 2013
This is such a cool yet simple model.

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Tom Simon
August 15, 2010
Nice job on the whole carbon series, not to mention the idea of doing it.

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Sebeus I
January 23, 2009
Nicely done, interesting design

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Brick Tales
January 23, 2009
Hey, I teach chem and my wife's doctoral research involved adducts of C70, so we spent a lot of time playing with models of these. This whole series is really cool. I do envy your collection of hinge plates. Bruce

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