Author(s)

Raji Heyrovska^1,2

¹Private Research Scientist, Prague, Czech Republic.
²Former: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.

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.

Carbon, Graphite, Graphene, van der Waals Bond, Bond Length, Golden Ratio Based Ionic Radii

Heyrovska, R. (2016) The Coulombic Nature of the van der Waals Bond Connecting Conducting Graphene Layers in Graphite. Graphene, 5, 35-38. doi: 10.4236/graphene.2016.52004.