Electronic structure methods are used to explore fullerenes from C-60
to C-3840. The appearance and development of electronic and vibrationa
l bands is tracked from the discrete molecular levels of small cluster
s to the quasi-continuous state density functions of large fullerenes.
The electronic state density of C-2160 is very similar to monolayer g
raphite, while the vibrational spectrum differs from graphite, even fo
r C-3840.