Kh. Bennemann et Ka. Penson, ON THE SIZE DEPENDENCE OF STANDING WAVES IN TUBULAR FULLERENES, Fullerene science and technology, 4(6), 1996, pp. 1109-1117
We present an analysis of principal vibrational modes whose propagatio
n creates the standing waves along the lateral surfaces of the elongat
ed fullerenes. We deduce the recurrence rules determining the possibil
ity of resonances between the skew and vertical modes, as well as the
appearance of isolated standing waves with nodes in the elongated full
erenes C-N with N = 50 + 10k, k = 1,2,3.... We discuss briefly the inf
luence of different vibrational spectra on the mechanical stability of
CN-elongated fullerenes, and its impact on the relative rate of their
production.