Molecular Descriptors of Certain Class of Carbon Nanocone Networks Through Quotient Graph Approach

Abstract

Nanoparticles have potential applications in a wide range of fields, including electronics, medicine and material research, because of their remarkable and exceptional attributes. Carbon nanocones are planar carbon networks with mostly hexagonal faces and a few non-hexagonal faces (mostly pentagons) in the core. Two types of nanocone configurations are possible: symmetric and asymmetric, depending on where the pentagons are positioned within the structure. In addition to being a good substitute for carbon nanotubes, carbon nanocones have made an identity for themselves in a number of fields, including biosensing, electrochemical sensing, biofuel cells, supercapacitors, gas storage devices, and biomedical applications. Their astonishing chemical and physical attributes have made them well-known and widely accepted in the fields of condensed matter physics, chemistry, material science, and nanotechnology. Mathematical and chemical breakthroughs were made possible by the concept of modeling a chemical structure as a chemical graph and quantitatively analyzing the related graph using molecular descriptors. Molecular descriptors are useful in many areas of chemistry, biology, computer science, and other sciences because they allow for the analysis of chemical structures without the need for experiments. In this work, the quotient graph approach is used to establish the distance based descriptors of symmetrically configured two-pentagonal and three-pentagonal carbon nanocones. © 2024 the Author(s).