Information-theoretic model of self-organizing fullerenes and the emergence of C60

Abstract

An information-theoretic model describes the dissipative dynamical systems composed of ensembles of fragmenting, self-organizing fullerenes. The probabilities derived from the variations of the fullerene number densities that occur during cage-to-cage transformations are used to evaluate Shannon entropy for every carbon cage. Fractal dimension of the cages are calculated from the respective entropy. C60 is shown to emerges as the end-directed evolution of dynamical systems of four different ensembles of fullerenes. The information generating, transforming cages of carbon provide a perspective to evaluate the self-organizational behavior of dissipative structures.