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15 Citations
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11 October 2018

Topological indices and connectivity polynomials are invariants of molecular graphs. These invariants have the tendency of predicting the properties of the molecular structures. The honeycomb network structure is an important type of benzene network....

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32 Citations
6,471 Views
10 Pages

Some Computational Aspects of Boron Triangular Nanotubes

  • Mobeen Munir,
  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • Shazia Rafique,
  • Abdul Rauf Nizami and
  • Shin Min Kang

1 January 2017

The recent discovery of boron triangular nanotubes competes with carbon in many respects. The closed form of M‐polynomial of nanotubes produces closed forms of many degree‐based topological indices which are numerical parameters of the structure and,...

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24 July 2026

The Sombor index has recently become a central tool among degree-based graph invariants; however, it does not explicitly isolate degree imbalance along edges. In this work, we introduce the degree-based Contrastive Sombor Index (CSO), which combines...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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413 Views
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21 August 2026

The Hyperbolic Sombor index HSO(G) of a graph G=(V(G),E(G)) is proposed as a new vertex-degree-based topological index. In this paper, we investigate the mathematical properties of this novel vertex-degree-based topological index for general graphs....

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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5 Citations
2,197 Views
12 Pages

22 November 2024

Consider a unicyclic graph G with edge set E(G). Let f be a real-valued symmetric function defined on the Cartesian square of the set of all distinct elements of G’s degree sequence. A graphical edge-weight-function index of G is defined as If(...

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13 Citations
2,699 Views
12 Pages

19 September 2022

In this article, we introduce the neighborhood versions of two classical topological indices, namely neighborhood geometric–arithmetic and neighborhood atom bond connectivity indices. We study the graph-theoretic properties of these new topological i...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
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73 Citations
6,459 Views
9 Pages

M-Polynomials and Topological Indices of Titania Nanotubes

  • Mobeen Munir,
  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • Abdul Rauf Nizami,
  • Shazia Rafique and
  • Shin Min Kang

31 October 2016

Titania is one of the most comprehensively studied nanostructures due to their widespread applications in the production of catalytic, gas sensing, and corrosion-resistant materials. M-polynomial of nanotubes has been vastly investigated, as it produ...

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133 Citations
8,382 Views
12 Pages

M-Polynomial and Related Topological Indices of Nanostar Dendrimers

  • Mobeen Munir,
  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • Shazia Rafique and
  • Shin Min Kang

21 September 2016

Dendrimers are highly branched organic macromolecules with successive layers of branch units surrounding a central core. The M-polynomial of nanotubes has been vastly investigated as it produces many degree-based topological indices. These indices ar...

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131 Citations
7,927 Views
8 Pages

M-Polynomial and Degree-Based Topological Indices of Polyhex Nanotubes

  • Mobeen Munir,
  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • Shazia Rafique and
  • Shin Min Kang

6 December 2016

The discovery of new nanomaterials adds new dimensions to industry, electronics, and pharmaceutical and biological therapeutics. In this article, we first find closed forms of M-polynomials of polyhex nanotubes. We also compute closed forms of variou...

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39 Citations
5,805 Views
11 Pages

On the Multiplicative Degree-Based Topological Indices of Silicon-Carbon Si2C3-I[p,q] and Si2C3-II[p,q]

  • Young Chel Kwun,
  • Abaid Ur Rehman Virk,
  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • M. A. Rehman and
  • Shin Min Kang

3 August 2018

The application of graph theory in chemical and molecular structure research has far exceeded people’s expectations, and it has recently grown exponentially. In the molecular graph, atoms are represented by vertices and bonds by edges. Topologi...

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39 Citations
5,176 Views
11 Pages

On Molecular Descriptors of Carbon Nanocones

  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • Adeel Farooq,
  • Muhammad Younas,
  • Mobeen Munir and
  • Shin Min Kang

7 September 2018

Many degree-based topological indices can be obtained from the closed-off M-polynomial of a carbon nanocone. These topological indices are numerical parameters that are associated with a structure and, in combination, determine the properties of the...

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1 Citations
4,259 Views
15 Pages

27 July 2018

The phenomenon of urban sprawl has received much attention. Accurately confirming the spatial expansion degree of urban sprawl (SEDUS) is a prerequisite to controlling urban sprawl. However, there is no reliable metric to accurately measure SEDUS. In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Complex Systems)
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To address the critical issue of uneven flow allocation in district heating systems, this paper proposes a novel, systematic evaluation framework centered on the Flow Balance Index. The basic approach transforms discrete actual flow rates of users ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Built Environment Engineering: Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Heating Technology)
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16 Citations
2,894 Views
15 Pages

Bounds on the Arithmetic-Geometric Index

  • José M. Rodríguez,
  • José L. Sánchez,
  • José M. Sigarreta and
  • Eva Tourís

15 April 2021

The concept of arithmetic-geometric index was recently introduced in chemical graph theory, but it has proven to be useful from both a theoretical and practical point of view. The aim of this paper is to obtain new bounds of the arithmetic-geometric...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical and Computational Properties of Topological Indices)
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14 October 2026

The water–energy–food (WEF) nexus is central to regional sustainable development, particularly in resource-based regions (RBRs) facing resource depletion and ecological strain. While existing studies have examined internal WEF linkages an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Integrated Solutions for Sustainability)
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16 Citations
2,363 Views
13 Pages

9 October 2021

A vertex-degree-based (VDB, for short) topological index φ induced by the numbers φij was recently defined for a digraph D, as φD=12∑uvφdu+dv−, where du+ denotes the out-degree of the vertex u,dv− denotes the in-degree of the vertex v, and the sum ru...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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12 Citations
2,814 Views
18 Pages

17 March 2023

The large-scale integration of photovoltaic (PV) power can bring a greatly negative influence on the grid-connected system’s voltage stability. To study the static voltage stability (SVS) of PV grid-connected systems, the traditional SVS index,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power System Analysis Control and Operation)
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2 Citations
2,558 Views
10 Pages

14 March 2023

Several topological indices are known to have widespread implications in a variety of research areas. Over the years, the Kirchhoff index has turned out to be an extremely significant and efficient index. In this paper, we propose the exact formulas...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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1 Citations
1,042 Views
23 Pages

5 March 2026

As Guangdong is a pivotal province in China’s national forest city initiative, examining the spatiotemporal evolution and key drivers of eco-environmental quality (EEQ) in Guangdong is essential for advancing regional sustainable development. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Data Science for Landscape Monitoring and Ecological Conservation)
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18 Citations
2,419 Views
22 Pages

26 September 2023

Realizing real-time and rapid monitoring of crop growth is crucial for providing an objective basis for agricultural production. To enhance the accuracy and comprehensiveness of monitoring winter wheat growth, comprehensive growth indicators are cons...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
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3 Citations
1,677 Views
15 Pages

Vulnerability impacts have increased in an unprecedented way with the effects of global warming, climate change, erosion, sea level rise, tsunami, flood, and drought—natural events that jointly cause geomorphological changes, especially in coas...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
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14 Citations
3,107 Views
15 Pages

1 March 2023

Rapid urbanization often exerts massive pressure on the resources relied upon by the ecological environment. It is necessary to quickly evaluate the interaction and mutual influence between regional urbanization and the ecological environment. This p...

(This article belongs to the Collection Urban Planning and Built Environment)
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7 Citations
2,853 Views
21 Pages

The Generalized Inverse Sum Indeg Index of Some Graph Operations

  • Ying Wang,
  • Sumaira Hafeez,
  • Shehnaz Akhter,
  • Zahid Iqbal and
  • Adnan Aslam

8 November 2022

The study of networks and graphs carried out by topological measures performs a vital role in securing their hidden topologies. This strategy has been extremely used in biomedicine, cheminformatics and bioinformatics, where computations dependent on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Topological Indices and Symmetry in Complex Networks)
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Reciprocal Mean Square Index of Graphs

  • Abdulaziz Mutlaq Alotaibi and
  • Akbar Ali

5 August 2026

The reciprocal mean square (RMS) index of a graph G with edge set E(G) is defined by RMS(G)=∑uv∈E(G)[(d(u))2+(d(v))2]−1, where d(u) and d(v) are the degrees of vertices u and v, respectively. We first establish several bounds for the R...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Graph Theory and Combinatorics)
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23 Citations
8,411 Views
15 Pages

Computation of Topological Indices of Some Special Graphs

  • Mohammed Salaheldeen Abdelgader,
  • Chunxiang Wang and
  • Sarra Abdalrhman Mohammed

There are several chemical indices that have been introduced in theoretical chemistry to measure the properties of molecular topology, such as distance-based topological indices, degree-based topological indices and counting-related topological indic...

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51 Citations
12,212 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2019

Public transport accessibility (PTA) is an essential index for evaluating the efficiency of urban public transport resource and public service. Improving public transport accessibility is considered as the most effective way of alleviating urban cong...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Built Environment)
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13 Citations
1,718 Views
13 Pages

Minimum Randić Index of Trees with Fixed Total Domination Number

  • Ayu Ameliatul Shahilah Ahmad Jamri,
  • Fateme Movahedi,
  • Roslan Hasni,
  • Rudrusamy Gobithaasan and
  • Mohammad Hadi Akhbari

11 October 2022

The Randić index is among the most famous degree-based topological indices in chemical graph theory. It was introduced due to its application in modeling the properties of certain molecular structures and has been extensively studied. In this pa...

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6 Citations
3,820 Views
16 Pages

18 August 2022

Healthcare accessibility (HCA) is directly related to the general well-being of citizens, and the HCA index model is widely used in HCA evaluation. However, the evaluation results of the HCA index model are rough and potentially misleading because it...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Social Development and Health Economics)
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5 Citations
2,846 Views
13 Pages

16 July 2023

A reasonable definition of nodes load and capacity is essential for improving the robustness of scale-free networks against cascading failure, which has gained significant attention over recent years. This paper presents two methods for defining the...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
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706 Views
25 Pages

14 May 2026

The diminished Sombor index is a degree-based topological index that normalizes the Sombor contribution of each edge (defined as the Euclidean norm of the endpoint degrees) by the sum of those degrees, thereby making the index independent of graph si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Applications)
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10 Citations
2,080 Views
14 Pages

Degree-Based Entropy of Some Classes of Networks

  • S. Nagarajan,
  • Muhammad Imran,
  • P. Mahesh Kumar,
  • K. Pattabiraman and
  • Muhammad Usman Ghani

13 February 2023

A topological index is a number that is connected to a chemical composition in order to correlate a substance’s chemical makeup with different physical characteristics, chemical reactivity, or biological activity. It is common to model drugs an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Discrete Applied Mathematics and Graph Theory, 2nd Edition)
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23 Citations
7,565 Views
15 Pages

Some Invariants of Jahangir Graphs

  • Mobeen Munir,
  • Waqas Nazeer,
  • Shin Min Kang,
  • Muhammad Imran Qureshi,
  • Abdul Rauf Nizami and
  • Youl Chel Kwun

23 January 2017

In this report, we compute closed forms of M-polynomial, first and second Zagreb polynomials and forgotten polynomial for Jahangir graphs Jn,m for all values of m and n. From the M-polynomial, we recover many degree-based topological indices such as...

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2 June 2026

This study explores the interaction mechanisms between population and environment systems within the context of high-quality development (HQD), providing empirical insights for developing countries navigating rapid urbanization. The existing literatu...

(This article belongs to the Section Development Goals towards Sustainability)
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1,236 Views
9 Pages

31 July 2025

It is well-known that the necessary and sufficient condition for a connected graph to be unicyclic is that its omega invariant, a recently introduced graph invariant useful in combinatorial and topological calculations, is zero. This condition could...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Theory and Applications, 3rd Edition)
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38 Citations
3,316 Views
19 Pages

A Paradigmatic Approach to Find the Valency-Based K-Banhatti and Redefined Zagreb Entropy for Niobium Oxide and a Metal–Organic Framework

  • Muhammad Usman Ghani,
  • Faisal Sultan,
  • El Sayed M. Tag El Din,
  • Abdul Rauf Khan,
  • Jia-Bao Liu and
  • Murat Cancan

17 October 2022

Entropy is a thermodynamic function in chemistry that reflects the randomness and disorder of molecules in a particular system or process based on the number of alternative configurations accessible to them. Distance-based entropy is used to solve a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Study of Molecules in the Light of Spectral Graph Theory)
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19 Citations
5,461 Views
19 Pages

30 July 2021

Research on fusion modeling of high spatial and temporal resolution images typically uses MODIS products at 500 m and 250 m resolution with Landsat images at 30 m, but the effect on results of the date of reference images and the ‘mixed pixels’ natur...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
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69 Citations
4,969 Views
15 Pages

Some Extremal Graphs with Respect to Sombor Index

  • Kinkar Chandra Das and
  • Yilun Shang

25 May 2021

Let G be a graph with set of vertices V(G)(|V(G)|=n) and edge set E(G). Very recently, a new degree-based molecular structure descriptor, called Sombor index is denoted by SO(G) and is defined as SO=SO(G)=∑vivj∈E(G)dG(vi)2+dG(vj)2, where dG(vi) is th...

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6 Citations
1,775 Views
14 Pages

22 May 2024

For a graph G=(VG,EG), a degree-based graphical index GId takes the general form GId=∑xy∈EGϕ(dx,dy), where ϕ is a symmetric map and di is the degree of i∈VG. For α∈R, if ϕ=(dxdy)α (resp. ϕ=(dx+dy)&al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics)
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17 Citations
3,487 Views
24 Pages

On Valency-Based Molecular Topological Descriptors of Subdivision Vertex-Edge Join of Three Graphs

  • Juan L. G. Guirao,
  • Muhammad Imran,
  • Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui and
  • Shehnaz Akhter

17 June 2020

In the studies of quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSARs) and quantitative structure–property relationships (QSPRs), graph invariants are used to estimate the biological activities and properties of chemical compounds. In th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical and Computational Properties of Topological Indices)
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31 Citations
5,119 Views
15 Pages

Topological Characterization of the Symmetrical Structure of Bismuth Tri-Iodide

  • Muhammad Imran,
  • Muhammad Arfan Ali,
  • Sarfraz Ahmad,
  • Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui and
  • Abdul Qudair Baig

4 June 2018

The bismuth tri-iodide ( B i I 3 ) is an inorganic compound. It is the result of the response of bismuth and iodine, which has inspired enthusiasm for subjective inorganic investigation. The topological indices are the numerical invariants of...

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3 Citations
992 Views
11 Pages

24 April 2025

Recently, the exponential arithmetic–geometric index (EAG) was introduced. The exponential arithmetic–geometric index (EAG) of a graph G is defined as EAG(G)=∑vivj∈E(G)edi+dj2didj, where di represents the degree of the vertex vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition)
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6 Citations
1,922 Views
20 Pages

Molecular fractals are geometric patterns that appear self-similar across all length scales and are constructed by repeating a single unit on a regular basis. Entropy, as a core thermodynamic function, is an extension based on information theory (suc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal Functions: Theoretical Research and Application Analysis)
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41 Citations
3,225 Views
20 Pages

Fundamental Aspects of Skin Cancer Drugs via Degree-Based Chemical Bonding Topological Descriptors

  • Abdul Rauf Khan,
  • Nadeem ul Hassan Awan,
  • Muhammad Usman Ghani,
  • Sayed M. Eldin,
  • Hanen Karamti,
  • Ahmed H. Jawhari and
  • Yousef E. Mukhrish

24 April 2023

Due to significant advancements being made in the field of drug design, the use of topological descriptors remains the primary approach. When combined with QSPR models, descriptors illustrate a molecule’s chemical properties numerically. Number...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fundamental Aspects of Chemical Bonding)
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23 Citations
5,149 Views
26 Pages

24 August 2019

Topological indices are numeric quantities that describes the topology of molecular structure in mathematical chemistry. An important area of applied mathematics is the chemical reaction network theory. Real-world problems can be modeled using this t...

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23 Citations
4,936 Views
12 Pages

More on Sombor Index of Graphs

  • Wenjie Ning,
  • Yuheng Song and
  • Kun Wang

19 January 2022

Recently, a novel degree-based molecular structure descriptor, called Sombor index was introduced. Let G=(V(G),E(G)) be a graph. Then, the Sombor index of G is defined as SO(G)=∑uv∈E(G)dG2(u)+dG2(v). In this paper, we give some lemmas that c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Discrete Applied Mathematics and Graph Theory)
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11 Citations
4,448 Views
18 Pages

On Degree-Based Topological Indices of Symmetric Chemical Structures

  • Jia-Bao Liu,
  • Haidar Ali,
  • Muhammad Kashif Shafiq and
  • Usman Munir

9 November 2018

A Topological index also known as connectivity index is a type of a molecular descriptor that is calculated based on the molecular graph of a chemical compound. Topological indices are numerical parameters of a graph which characterize its topology a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Graph Theory)
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25 Citations
5,129 Views
11 Pages

21 July 2023

Graph entropy plays an essential role in interpreting the structural information and complexity measure of a network. Let G be a graph of order n. Suppose dG(vi) is degree of the vertex vi for each i=1,2,…,n. Now, the k-th degree-based graph e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spectral Graph Theory, Topological Indices of Graph, and Entropy)
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31 Citations
3,345 Views
17 Pages

Characterizations of Chemical Networks Entropies by K-Banhatii Topological Indices

  • Muhammad Usman Ghani,
  • Francis Joseph H. Campena,
  • Shahbaz Ali,
  • Sanaullah Dehraj,
  • Murat Cancan,
  • Fahad M. Alharbi and
  • Ahmed M. Galal

3 January 2023

Entropy is a thermodynamic function in physics that measures the randomness and disorder of molecules in a particular system or process based on the diversity of configurations that molecules might take. Distance-based entropy is used to address a wi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Molecular Topology and Computation)
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12 Citations
4,338 Views
23 Pages

Properties of Entropy-Based Topological Measures of Fullerenes

  • Modjtaba Ghorbani,
  • Matthias Dehmer and
  • Frank Emmert-Streib

A fullerene is a cubic three-connected graph whose faces are entirely composed of pentagons and hexagons. Entropy applied to graphs is one of the significant approaches to measuring the complexity of relational structures. Recently, the research on c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Theory at Work in Carbon Chemistry)
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9 Citations
2,645 Views
11 Pages

Analysis of a Productive Topological Index Correlated to Fullerenes’ Physical Properties

  • Umber Sheikh,
  • Qurrat ul Ain Tahir,
  • Yasir Nadeem Anjam and
  • Richard Pincak

26 December 2022

Fullerene is a cage-like carbon allotrope admitting a vast range of applications. Some of the important fullerenes are C54,C58,C60,C70,C74,C76,C78,C80C82,C84,C86,C90. The physical properties of fullerenes can be exhibited using the degree-based topol...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)

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