From 0D to 1D

Carbon nanotubes are often demonstrated as rolled-up graphene as shown here. However one can get to the concept of carbon nanotubes starting out of fullerenes too. The animation below shows that taking longer and longer fullerenes can result — at least theoretically — in a capped (5,5) armchair nanotube.
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