Icosahedra of icosahedra: The stability of (C60)13
- 8 October 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 105 (14) , 6088-6089
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.472448
Abstract
The relative stability of clusters of fullerenes has been investigated. By heating the clusters before ionization we have obtained mass spectra where only the monomer and (C60)13 are present in significant amounts. An approximately 20% increase of the activation energy for evaporation of a monomer from (C60)13 compared to that from (C60)14 explains the experimental results.Keywords
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