Nanocones

Nanocones

Nonplanar graphitic structures. Carbon-based structures with five-fold symmetry that form due to disclination defects in two-dimensional graphene sheets. They have been observed as nanotube caps and as freestanding structures. see Nanostructures Fabrication from Carbon Nanocones.

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