Research Article

Geometry, Energy, and Some Electronic Properties of Carbon Polyprismanes: Ab Initio and Tight-Binding Study

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Binding energies and HOMO-LUMO gaps versus the number of C4-rings obtained at the DFT/B3LYP/6-311G(d) (crosses) and NTBM (circles) levels of theory. The asterisk indicates that all HOMO-LUMO gaps obtained within the NTBM model are shifted to 0.35 eV.