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- Zettergren, Henning, et al.
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Formation of dumb-bell C118 and C119 inside clusters of C60 -molecules
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report highly selective covalent bond-modifications in collisions between keV alpha particles and van der Waals clusters of C60-fullerenes. Surprisingly, C119+ and C118+ are the dominant molecular fusion products. We use Molecular Dynamics simulations to show that C59+ and C58+ ions - effectively produced in prompt knock-out processes with He2+ - react rapidly with C60 to form dumb-bell C119+ and C118+ . Ion impact on molecular clusters in general is expected to lead to efficient secondary reactions of interest for astrophysics. These reactions are different from those induced by photons.
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