Phase diagram, structure, and disorder in C60 below 300 K and 1 GPa

• Earlier structural studies have shown that the pentagon-to-hexagon orientation ratio in the orientationally ordered simple cubic phase of C60 decreases under pressure. From anomalies observed in the compressibility and thermal conductivity of C60 under pressure we have deduced a pressure-temperature phase diagram for this substance in the range below 300 K and 1 GPa (10 kbar). We conclude that C60 forms a new, completely “hexagon” ordered structural phase above about 0.6 GPa at 150 K (1.2 GPa at 300 K), and that the glass transition shifts upwards in T under pressure by 54 K GPa−1. However, above 0.1 GPa, pentagon-to-hexagon orientation relaxation seems to occur on heating at an almost pressure independent temperature near 100 K.

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

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Keyword

Fullerenes

C60

high pressure

phase diagram

orientational state

molecular orientation

rotational transition

glass transition

bulk modulus

compressibility

thermal conductivity

orientational relaxation

Condensed matter physics

Kondenserade materiens fysik

fysik

Physics

Fysik

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