Constructing Bead Models of Smoothly Varying Carbon Nanotori with Constant Radii and Related Intersecting Structures
Proceedings of Bridges 2021: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 331–334
Short Papers
Abstract
We develop a systematic procedure to construct models of carbon nanotori with smoothly varying local curvature. The tubular radius is preserved by repeatedly connecting a tube with its mirror image and forming a torus, where a set of five indices suffice to uniquely characterize this scheme. We also extend the constructing strategy to stadium- and star-shaped rings and the corresponding intersecting structures. The bead models of the structures are presented as well.