Orientational disorder and the p-T phase diagram of fullerenes

• The translational and orientational structures of fullerenes are very sensitive to pressure, p, because of the weak intermolecular potentials. We have recently carried out high-p studies of the thermal conductivity lambda and the bulk modulus B of C60 and C70, and we show here how the p-T phase diagrams of these materials can be mapped from data for B and lambda and a knowledge of the structures at zero pressure. We discuss how B and lambda are modified by translational, rotational and orientational disorder in the materials, mainly showing examples related to the orientational substructure and its evolution with T and p in C60. We also discuss briefly the structures and phase diagrams of C70 and C61H2, and we show preliminary experimental results suggesting that the structure of high-p, high-T treated C60 is probably not polymeric as recently suggested by several groups.

Ämnesord

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

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

Nyckelord

Fullerenes

C60

C70

C61H2

high pressure

orientational structure

phase diagrams

thermal conductivity

bulk modulus

compressibility

Condensed matter physics

Kondenserade materiens fysik

fysik

Physics

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