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- From: kniaz@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu (Chris Kniaz -Fischer)
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- Subject: Re: Buckminster Fullerenes
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:49:26 GMT
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- In article <351@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov> dlmedli@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (medlin douglas l) writes:
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- >[...] and below 90K the
- >symmetry changes to a rhombohedral structure.
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- Van Tendaloo proposed a new structure for C60 , below 90K simple
- cubic structure (Pa3 I believe) transforms into the rhombohedral str, with
- the doubling of the unit cell. According to very extensive research
- done at the University of Pennsylvania (using the Synchrotron Radiation
- at the Brookhaven Nat. LAb, TGA-DSC, FTIR, 13C NMR and EPR) this second
- phase transition is due to impurities picked up by the C60 - paper
- will be published soon (sort of nail to the coffin).
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- >Apparently, the same type of transformations alsokjjoccur in C70
- >as the "footballs" stop spinning: Descending frot high temperatures
- >there is a continuous transformation from FCC to rhombohedral; at
- >337 K there is a shear transformation to HCP; at 276 K there is
- >a transformation to another Hexagonal phase; and then at some
- >lower temperature the balls stop rotating entirely and the
- >structure distorts to a monoclinic phase.
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- Again shear tranformation rhombohedral->hcp is due to impurities.
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- Fullerenes , after the column are usually in form of the black (sometimes
- shiny) powder. However, I saw a brown powder once!
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