Novel method for C60 synthesis: A thermal plasma at atmospheric pressure
- 7 December 1992
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 61 (23) , 2782-2783
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.108089
Abstract
We report here that fullerenes (C60,C70,C84, etc.) can be fabricated in a 7% yield by carbon particle evaporation in a hybrid plasma which is characterized by the superposition of a rf plasma and a dc arc jet operated at atmospheric pressure. We found that increasing the pressure in the plasma gas increases the yield of fullerenes. We also investigated the effect of introducing the gas for quenching the plasma gas on the yield of fullerenes. Furthermore, this method has also been used to produce metal fulleride.Keywords
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