Structural defects and the shape of larg
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C.J. Brabec; A. Maiti; J. Bernholc
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Article
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1994
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Motivated by the recent experimental observation of nearly spherical multi-layer fullerenes, we investigate theoretically the role of thermally generated structural defects on the shape and stability of large fullerenes by equilibrium statistical mechanics methods. Low energy defects are generated v