1. Crystalline C60 fulleride with metal inside
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Nakagawa, Ayano, Nishino, Makiko, Niwa, Hiroyuki, Ishino, Katsuma, Wang, Zhiyong, Omachi, Haruka, Furukawa, Ko, Yamaguchi, Takahisa, Kato, Tatsuhisa, Bandow, Shunji, Rio, Jeremy, Ewels, Chris, Aoyagi, Shinobu, and Shinohara, Hisanori
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Condensed Matter - Materials Science - Abstract
Endohedral metallofullerenes have been extensively studied, since the first experimental observation of La@C60 in a laser-vaporized supersonic beam in 1985. However, all of these studies have been carried out on metallofullerenes larger than C60 such as (metal)@C82, and there are no reported purified C60-based metallofullerenes except for [Li@C60]+(SbCl6)- salt. Pure (metal)@C60 has not been obtained because of their extremely high chemical reactivity. We report here the first isolation, structural determination and electromagnetic properties of crystalline C60-based metallofullerenes, Gd@C60(CF3)5 and La@C60(CF3)5. Synchrotron X-ray single-crystal diffraction reveals that La and Gd atoms are indeed encapsulated in the Ih-C60 fullerene. The HOMO-LUMO gaps of Gd@C60 and La@C60 are significantly widened by an order of magnitude with addition of CF3- groups. Magnetic measurements show the presense of a weak antiferromagnetic coupling in Gd@C60(CF3)3 crystals at low temperatures. Gd@C60 and La@C60 might exhibit superconductivity as the electronic structures resemble those of superconducting alkali-doped C60 fullerides., Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures
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- 2018