Packing of C60 molecules and related fullerenes in crystals: a direct view

✍ Scribed by Su Wang; Peter R. Buseck

• Book ID: 103028927
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 671 KB
• Volume: 182
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(91)80093-d

✦ Synopsis

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy images of cryslals consisting largely of &,, molecules ("buckminsterfullerene" ) show that they form close-packed arrays. Domams containing closed-cage structural relatives of C,, ("fullerenes") that are both smaller and significantly larger than C,, are evident. The larger fullerenes have the projected shapes of elongated ellipsoids, some of which we estimate to contain over IO0 carbon atoms.