Fullerenes

Home CAAGT Authors Gunnar Brinkmann Jan Goedgebeur Brendan McKay

Fullerenes Warning: this page is still under construction! Buckygen is a program for the efficient generation of all nonisomorphic fullerenes. These are triangulations where all vertices have degree 5 or 6. Or if the dual representation is used: cubic plane graphs where all faces are pentagons or hexagons. The program can also be used to generate IPR fullerenes, these are fullerenes which have no adjacent degree 5 vertices. The algorithms used in the generator are described in: G. Brinkmann, J. Goedgebeur and B.D. McKay, Generation of Fullerenes, in preparation. This generator will soon be downloadable here. A short manual can already be found here. Buckygen is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and has been tested on Linux and Mac OS X. Installation instructions: Download and extract the latest version of buckygen. Compile using the command "make". The fullerene counts (including downloadable lists) can be found here. Don't hesitate to contact us at jan.goedgebeur[at]ugent.be if you have any further questions or suggestions.