Radiolysis of binary systems containing germanium and carbon hydrides

✍ Scribed by Paola Antoniotti; Paola Benzi; Mario Castiglioni; Lorenza Operti; Paolo Volpe

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 536 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-806X
• DOI: 10.1016/0969-806x(96)00011-4

✦ Synopsis

Abstraet--Radiolysis of the mixtures GeH4/C2H 6 and GeH4/C 3 H s have been studied. The decomposition of the parent molecules leads to solid and volatile products. The decomposition of GeH 4, according to the composition of the mixtures, is 1.7-2.5 times larger than in pure GeH 4. Also the hydrocarbons decompose 1.6-3.4 times more than in systems containing the pure reactants. The formation of the sofid, a polymer containing Ge, C and H, has been attributed to a polymerization process initiated by the germylene-like species, while the gaseous products seem to derive from germyl-like species. The radical mechanism seems to prevail on the ionic.