Computer Based Projects for a Chemistry Curriculum

Constructing and Visualizing Some Common Materials

Author(s): Thomas J. Manning and Aurora P. Gramatges

Pp: 186-197 (12)

DOI: 10.2174/9781608051939113010022

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Abstract

In this exercise, students will learn how to use a modeling program to build a lattice structure. It will teach students how to construct a sheeted material such as graphite, how to construct an intercalated compound, how to construct a fullerene (buckyball, C60) and a aza-fullerene (C48N12), and how to construct a carbon nanotube from chains of carbon molecules. It aims to improve a student’s ability to visualize 3D structures.


Keywords: Molecular modelling, materials, intercalation, fullerene, nanotube, allotropes.

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