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torus
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Representation of a torus surface
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A planar graphene monolayer can be bent to a nanotube and then to a torus.
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Torus Site:
Information about nanotube tori
http://www.nanotube.msu.edu/torus/
This information corresponds to the publication
Chern Chuang, Jie Guan, David Witalka, Zhen Zhu, Bih-Yaw Jin, and
David Tománek,
"Relative Stability and Local Curvature Analysis
in Carbon Nanotori",
Phys. Rev. B 91,165433 (2015).
Click on a torus for information about the structure,
local Gaussian curvature and curvature energy.
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Polygonal tori
contain also non-hexagonal rings.
Polygonal tori can further
be classified by their rotational symmetry,
the length of the nanotube segments
and the height along the torus axis.
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Polygonal Tori:
Rotational Symmetry
Series
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n is the rotational symmetry index
Family 1
Family 2
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Polygonal Tori:
Nanotube Segment
Length Series
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L is the nanotube segment length index
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Polygonal Tori:
Torus Height Series
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H is the height index
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