Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.428, No.4-6, 386-393, 2006
Growing fullerenes from seed: Growth transformations of fullerene polyhedra
A cut-and-paste approach using a family of structurally similar 'growth patches' (pairs of non-isomorphic patches with the same boundary but containing different numbers of vertices) allows formal construction from a C-24 seed of all fullerene isomers with up to at least 200 atoms. Algorithmic and chemical implications are discussed. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.