%0 Journal Article
%T The Coulombic Nature of the van der Waals Bond Connecting Conducting Graphene Layers in Graphite
%A Raji Heyrovska
%J Graphene
%P 35-38
%@ 2169-3471
%D 2016
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/graphene.2016.52004
%X Carbon forms a variety of compounds with single, double, triple and the intermediate resonance
bonds with atoms of its own or other kinds. This paper is concerned with graphite, a very useful
material, which is a stack of electrically conducting graphene layers held together by weak van der
Waals (vdW) bonds. It crystallizes in hexagonal and rhombohedral forms, in which the hexagon
inter-planar bond distance is 0.34 nm. Here a new and simple approach accounts for this bond
length and shows the coulombic nature of the vdW bond.
%K Carbon
%K Graphite
%K Graphene
%K van der Waals Bond
%K Bond Length
%K Golden Ratio Based Ionic Radii
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=63876