Theoretical studies of multishell fullerenes

In this paper two types of multishell fullerenes have been investigated. They are the multishells of the concentric circumspheres of polyhedra Cn (Ih, n=60k2) and Cn (Ih, n=180k2), respectively, where k is the sequence of positive integers 1,2, up to L, and L is the number of shells. The electronic structures of the multishell fullerenes have been calculated with the values of k from 1 to 25 for the first type, and the values of k from 1 to 14 for the second type. The van der Waals energies and the Gibbs functions for the formation of multishell fullerenes from the isolated shells have also been derived