Electron microscopy study of C60
- 9 December 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 59 (24) , 3108-3109
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.105779
Abstract
The microstructural features of the powder C60 material have been studied by using scanning microscopy, electron diffraction, and high resolution electron microscopy. Scanning electron microscopy observation reveals that the grains in the samples are packed by extensively disordered crystallites as well as amorphous granules. Electron diffraction measurements have identified that the crystals of C60 have two kinds of structure, one is face‐centered‐cubic (fcc) with unit cell parameter a=1.41 nm, and the other has the hexagonal closest packed (hcp) structure with cell parameters a=0.958 nm and c=1.63 nm. High resolution electron microscopy as well as electron diffraction observations clearly show the random crystallites packing in the C60 grains.Keywords
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