Rolling Up a Sheet of Graphene

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A planar hexagonal lattice is rolled up into a cylinder. This can be an illustration of how a graphene sheet forms a nanotube of "armchair" geometry.

External Links

Hexagonal Grid (Wolfram MathWorld)

Permanent Citation

Sándor Kabai
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​"Rolling Up a Sheet of Graphene"​
​http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RollingUpASheetOfGraphene/​
​Wolfram Demonstrations Project​
​Published: July 25, 2007