1,000-atom model of amorphous graphite (IMAGE)

Ohio University

1,000-atom model of amorphous graphite

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One of the planes in 1,000-atom model of amorphous graphite. Yellow spheres are carbon atoms. Note the “ring disorder”: co-existing pentagons, hexagons and heptagons.

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