Growth of face-centered-cubic single crystals of C60 from boiling benzene

31 August 1992

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 61 (9) , 1043-1044
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.107710

Abstract

We report a new synthesis technique of face‐centered‐cubic single crystals of C₆₀ with a macroscopic dimension of 0.3×0.3×0.5 mm³. The crystals are grown from a benzene heated above 80 °C. The mosaic spread of the crystal is about 0.5°.

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