Inorganic fullerene/nanotube structures

This chapter is structured as follows we will discuss the structure of carbon and inorganic nanotubes in general in Section 2, followed by synopses of studies of structural properties of elemental inorganic nanotubes and intrinsically twisted inorgnic nanotubes in Sections 3 and 4, respectively. Section 5 discusses the encapsulation of materials in and the filling process of inorganic nanotubes, whereas Section 6 features inorganic fullerene-like structures. We conclude in Section 7. 

In this chapter we have reviewed the latest contributions within the field of modelling inorganic nanotubes and inorganic fullerene-like structures. We have seen that many inorganic layered materials are able to form hollow nanostructures similar to systems formed by graphene and other forms of carbon. Most of the materials studied theoretically have been experimentally synthesized as well. Some of them are even produced in large amounts for industrial applications. 

Let us note in addition that the layered sulfides M0S2 and WS2 have been found to form nanotubes and other fullerene-type structures, on account of their highly folded and distorted nature that favors the formation of rag and tubular structures. Such materials have been synthesized by a variety of methods [78] and exhibit morphologies, which were described as inorganic fiillerenes (IF), single sheets, folded sheets, nanocrystals, and nested IFs (also known as onion crystals or Russian dolls ). 

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A group of nanomaterials, as the only criterion of membership becomes particle size, is very diversified. Particular members of the group differ from each other by molecular geometry (i.e., nanotubes, fullerenes, crystal structures, clusters, etc.) and physicochemical characteristics (i.e., organic, inorganic, semiconductors, isolators, metals, nonmetals, etc.). Thus, it may and should be assumed that they also differ by the mechanism of action and - in consequence - defining one common applicability domain and QSAR model for all of them is impossible. 

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