Study of the Orthorhombic Polymeric Phase of C60 Under High Pressure Using Synchrotron X-Ray Powder Diffraction.

Autor: Papoular, R. J., Dmitriev, V., Davydov, V. A., Rakhmanina, A. V., Allouchi, H., Agafonov, V.
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Zdroj: Fullerenes, Nanotubes & Carbon Nanostructures; Oct-Dec2010, Vol. 18 Issue 4-6, p392-395, 4p, 1 Chart, 2 Graphs
Abstrakt: As an extension of our previously published work (2007) on the orthorhombic phase of polymeric C60, high-resolution powder diffraction experiments under high pressure were recently carried out at the ESRF/SNBL/BM01A beamline. The acquisition times were very short, of the order of 10 minutes. In contrast to our first laboratory experiment, which involved much longer exposures (50-150 hours), no photo-induced transition to a crystalline state of lower symmetry could be observed up to 6 GPa. The obtained powder diffractograms are all consistent with an orthorhombic unit cell. A Birch-Murnaghan equation of state is fitted to the resulting pressure-volume data for the orthorhombic phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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