High pressure, low temperature structural studies of orientationally ordered C<sub>60</sub>

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Title	High pressure, low temperature structural studies of orientationally ordered C₆₀
Contributors	WIF David (SERC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), RM Ibberson (SERC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Abstract	The low temperature orientationally ordered structure of C60 consists of rapid reorientation between two structurally distinct configurations. At ambient pressure, the lower-energy orientation, described by pentagons facing (110) bonding directions. has a larger volume than the second orientation, described by hexagons facing (110). In this paper, it is shown that application of a modest pressure of around 2 kbar is sufficient to make the 'hexagon orientation' the more energetically favourable. indicating that the structural ground state of C60 is highly pressure dependent.
Organisation	ISIS , ISIS-HRPD , SERC
Keywords	Physics , Chemistry , ISIS 1995
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Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Journal Article	J Phys-Condens Mat 5 (1993): 7923.	doi:10.1088/0953-8984/5/43/005		1993
Report	RAL Technical Reports RAL-93-060. 1993.		RAL-TR-1993-060.pdf	1993