Graphene plane and graphite models with no supports

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I designed models for the structure of graphite and the graphene plane, where carbon can be found in various forms, like graphite, which is used to make pencil leads. Graphite consists of stacks of planes made up of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons. Isolating one of these planes results in a graphene plane. A lot of research focuses on graphene due to its properties as a nanomaterial. I created a model of graphite that doesn't require printing supports, so I printed 3 graphene planes and several spacers used to arrange the graphite structure. The spacers were designed in TinkerCAD. The graphene plane model was generated by importing a .MOL file from a database into Avogadro, a free 3D molecule software. Avogadro can save the file as a .PDB format that can be placed in yet another free software - Chimera. Chimera is the one that saves as a .STL file for printing. Check out my other models: Carbon nanotube: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4121253 Diamond: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4121130