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On structural features of fullerene C60 dissolved in carbon disulfide: complementary study by small-angle neutron
M V Avdeev1, T V Tropin, I A Bodnarchuk
1Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna Moscow Reg., Russia. avd@nf.jinr.ru
Abstract:
The parameters of fullerene C(60) dissolved in carbon disulfide CS(2) are analyzed by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) in a wide interval of momentum transfer. To exclude the influence of nonequilibrium conditions, the solutions are prepared without applying shaking, stirring or ultrasound. No indication of the equilibrium cluster state of C(60) (with the cluster size below 60 nm) in the final solutions is revealed. Molecular dynamic simulations are complementary used to find out the partial volume of C(60) in CS(2) and the scattering contribution of the solvent organization at the interface with the fullerene molecule, which is shown to be small. Among several approaches for describing SANS data the preference is given to the model, which takes into account the presence of stable C(60) dimers (comprising 10% of the total particle number density) in the solution.
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