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RE: Gridcoin on Graphene!

in #gridcoin7 years ago (edited)

Fantastic idea and great look overall!

The top banner is hard on chemists eyes though. For each hexagon you have used 4 single and 2 double lines. Each atom has 4 electrons used for bonding. 3 of them create direct bonds with neighbours after coupling with their electrons. The 4th one forms a pair of delocalised electrons - some physical properties of graphene are a result of this. These electrons are quite freely moving around the network.

Ideally would be to use 6 single lines and a circle inside depicting 3 pairs of delocalised electrons.

OK solution is to use 3 single and 3 double lines

  • 6 single lines, like in the bottom banner, that are not trying to depict chemical structure - are perfectly fine.

EDIT. I apologize, I've messed up, it won't work either. Seems like it's best to use schematics with single lines. I'll try to be back later.

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Upvoted this to be on top, so that the world can see that the Gridcoin Community is the real deal!

Frankly, I just typed "graphene structure" in Google Images and picked one which seemed suitable for editing in Photoshop. But I can probably use another image, if it's more accurate. Have one handy? :)

I apologize, I've messed up, it won't work either. Seems like it's best to use schematics with single lines. The image you have used is OK, even though this notation is missing electron delocalisation.
You can take back an upvote for my previous post :(

Science is hard. Upvote can stay for good effort :)

I spent some time browsing Google Images, looking for a better image, but couldn't find anything more suitable really.

Just leave it, it's fairly OK. And looks good.

I appreciated your comment -- it's worth at least looking for something more notationally correct. But yeah in the end I think it's fine. Scientists routinely abuse notation out of laziness [source: a lazy scientist :-) ]