Peculiarities of the Structural Changes of C60/70 Fullerite upon Heating Temperatures up to 1700°Cстатья
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Аннотация:This paper presents the results of investigating the thermal destruction of fullerite and subsequentcarbon ordering with the formation of graphite (graphitation) upon heating the samples to 1700°C. We studyC60/70 fullerite powders with a predominant C60 content (C60—82.18%, C70—14.08%) obtained by the electric-arc evaporation of graphite rods with subsequent fullerene extraction from fullerene-containing soot byboiling toluene. Heating is performed in a CO environment. We investigate the changes in the fullerite crystalstructure after thermal impact by means of X-ray diffraction, analyze the change in the spatial orientation inthe carbon-carbon bonds by Raman spectroscopy, and estimated the particle dispersion by scanning electronmicroscopy. We show that the structural changes in the C60/70 fullerite upon heating above 950°C are causedby the destruction of its crystal structure with amorphous fullerite-like phase formation. Amorphization isaccompanied by an increase in the dispersion of the carbon powders. Subsequent structural ordering isobserved upon heating to temperatures above 1500°C and is accompanied by the formation of a graphite-likeamorphous phase. Detailed analysis of the fullerite structure after its amorphization is performed on the samples annealed at 1600°C for 0.5–16 h. We find that after heating to 1600°C, the sample consists of, predominantly, turbostratic carbon; we also record α graphite and β graphite with the low degree of ordering. Ordering with graphite formation is shown to be accompanied by carbon-particle coarsening.