Dose effect in neutron-irradiated C60: a positron lifetime spectroscopy and DSC study

✍ Scribed by Tibor Braun; Ilona Konkoly Thege; Henrik Rausch; Károly Süvegh; Attila Vértes

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 302 KB
• Volume: 238
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(95)00429-8

✦ Synopsis

Polycrystalline C6o samples irradiated with five doses of nuclear reactor neutrons stretching from 2.44 × 1014 to 1.03 × 1018 n/cm 2 were investigated by positron annihilation spectroscopy and DSC. The measurements indicated that the crystal structure of buckminsterfullerene is unaffected up to a dose of about 7.56 × 1016 n/cm 2. Above that dose the crystal lattice begins to collapse and at a dose of 1.03 × 1018 n/cm 2 the structure becomes totally disordered.