Structure, disorder, and phase diagram of C60 up to 1 GPa and below 300 K

• We have measured the compressibility and the thermal conductivity of C60 in the range below 300 K and up to 1 GPa (10 kbar). From the data obtained we have deduced the p-T phase diagram of C60. Literature data show that the ratio of pentagon-to-hexagon oriented molecules in the orientationally ordered phase decreases with increasing pressure, and from our data we conclude that C60 forms a new, completely "hexagon oriented" phase above 0.6 GPa at 150 K, or 1.2 GPa at 300 K. The glass transition temperature (90 K at atmospheric pressure) is found to increase by 54 K/GPa.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Fullerenes

C60

high pressure

phase diagram

thermal conductivity

compressibility

molecular orientation

orientational structure

glass transition

phase transition

Condensed matter physics

Kondenserade materiens fysik

fysik

Physics

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