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Hydrogen-Driven Cage Unzipping of C-60 into Nano-Graphenes
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Aalto University, Finland.
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2014 (English)In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ISSN 1932-7447, E-ISSN 1932-7455, Vol. 118, no 12, p. 6504-6513Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Annealing of C-60 in hydrogen at temperatures above the stability limit of C H bonds in C60Hx (500-550 degrees C) is found to result in direct collapse of the cage structure, evaporation of light hydrocarbons, and formation of solid mixture composed of larger hydrocarbons and few-layered graphene sheets. Only a minor part of this mixture is soluble; this was analyzed using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization MS, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and found to be a rather complex mixture of hydrocarbon molecules composed of at least tens of different compounds. The sequence of most abundant peaks observed in MS, which corresponds to C2H2 mass difference, suggests a stepwise breakup of the fullerene cage into progressively smaller molecular fragments edge-terminated by hydrogen. A simple model of hydrogen-driven C-60 unzipping is proposed to explain the observed sequence of fragmentation products. The insoluble part of the product mixture consists of large planar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, as evidenced by FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, and some larger sheets composed of few-layered graphene, as observed by transmission electron microscopy. Hydrogen annealing of C-60 thin films showed a thickness-dependent results with reaction products significantly different for the thinnest films compared to bulk powders. Hydrogen annealing of C-60 films with the thickness below 10 nm was found to result in formation of nanosized islands with Raman spectra very similar to the spectra of coronene oligomers and conductivity typical for graphene.

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American Chemical Society (ACS), 2014. Vol. 118, no 12, p. 6504-6513
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-41543DOI: 10.1021/jp500377sISI: 000333578300059OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-41543DiVA, id: diva2:923116
Available from: 2016-04-25 Created: 2016-04-11 Last updated: 2019-12-17Bibliographically approved

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