| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 40, Number 1, October 1997
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 55 - 60 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: structure, thermal and mechanical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1997-00424-4 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
First X-ray diffraction analysis of pressure polymerized C60 single crystals
1
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, URA CNRS 02,
Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
2
Department of
Experimental Physics, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå Sweden
Received:
23
June
1997
Accepted:
22
August
1997
It is shown that 
single crystals can be polymerized under
relatively modest pressure-temperature conditions. The resulting
single crystals exhibit long-range order and they are made up of 12
orientation variants. The structure is orthorhombic with a short
intermolecular distance along the chains (9.14 Å), characteristic of
covalent bonding. We propose a structural mechanism for the
polymerization of fullerene-based compounds; it involves a shift of
one of the (111) cubic planes together with a shortening of the (111)
spacing. The configuration of the polymer chains presents interesting
relations with that found in the 
polymer compounds.
PACS: 61.48.+c – Fullerenes and fullerene-related materials / 61.50.Ks – Crystallographic aspects of phase transformations; pressure effects
© EDP Sciences, 1997
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.