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Adatom-assisted structural transformations of fullerenes
- Source :
- Applied Physics Letters. 88:011913
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2006.
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Abstract
- Microscopic mechanism of autocatalytic structural transformations of fullerenes is investigated by the action-derived molecular dynamics. Dynamic pathways and the corresponding activation energies are obtained for the Stone-Wales transformation in fullerene and the fullerene coalescence, under the presence of extra carbon atoms. The adatom-assisted Stone-Wales transformation is proved to be a highly probable process unit for the structural transformations and annealing treatments of carbon-based graphitic networks. The complex processes of adatom-assisted fullerene coalescence, yielding very low activation energies, are presented.
Details
- ISSN :
- 10773118 and 00036951
- Volume :
- 88
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Physics Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ba255fd7e27367e23888ce1a3f961be8
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2161175