Stereochemistry and Organic Chemistry

Stereochemistry of carbon nanotubes

The results support proposed mechanisms of nanotube formation which involve growth by incorporation of carbon atoms into open tubes. They also show that naphthalene can be directly incorporated into fullerene black and thereby increase the number of hexagonal sheet structure of  molecules in the carbon deposit. Work so far in ball milling has been confined to studies of the destruction of graphite crystalline phases. Carbon nanotubes are related to fullerenes ("Bucky balls") the spherical and oval shaped molecules