Related papers: Anisotropic Compression in Dimer C60 Fullerene Sol…
A simple model based on atom-atom potential has been used to calculate various bulk, structural and thermodynamic properties of pure C_{60} solid by including implicit anharmonicity. The pressure and temperature dependent properties such as…
We study thermodynamic properties of the high-temperature modification of fullerites on the basis of the Girifalco intermolecular potential. In the present work, using the Lindemann's melting criterion we estimate a possible melting curve…
The discovery of the C60 fullerene opened new horizons to design carbon nanostructures with targeted electronic structure as well as transport and optical properties. For example, endohedral 12C60 molecules were proposed as candidates for…
Recent experimental reports on the realizations of two-dimensional (2D) networks of the C60-based fullerenes with anisotropic and nanoporous lattices represent a significant advance, and create exciting prospects for the development of a…
We study the thermodynamic properties of the high-temperature modification of fullerites on the basis of the Girifalco intermolecular potential. In the present work, using Lindemann's melting criterion, we estimate a possible melting curve…
The electron-conduction properties of fullerene chains are examined by first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory. The conductivity of the C$_{60}$ dimer is low owing to the constraint of the junction of the…
Investigations of clathrate structures have gained a new impetus with the recent discovery of room-temperature superconductivity in metal hydrides. Here we report the finding, through density functional theory calculations, of a clathrate…
A novel fulleride Sm6C60 has been synthesized using high temperature solid state reaction. The Rietveld refinement on high resolution synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction data shows that Sm6C60 is isostructural with body-centered cubic…
The current paper opens a series of papers that are aimed at the determination of barriers that govern the covalent coupling between partners of C60-based composites consisting of two or more fullerenes C60 (C60 dimer and oligomers) (Part…
We investigate the mechanical properties of $\pi$-conjugated polymeric materials composed of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and fullerene C$_{60}$ using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Specifically, we perform…
On the basis of the correlative method of the unsymmetrized self-consistent field that yields the account of the strong anharmonicity of the lattice vibrations, it has been calculated the temperature dependence of saturated vapor pressure…
We studied theoretically the optical properties of C$_{60}$ fullerene microcrystals as a function of hydrostatic pressure with first-principles many-body theories. Calculations of the electronic properties were done in the GW approximation.…
The pressure-induced structural transition in fcc C$_{60}$ fullerene by shock compression and rapid quenching is investigated by a semi-empirical tight-binding molecular dynamics simulation, adopting a constant-pressure scheme and a method…
Buckminsterfullerene (C60) can exhibit ferromagnetism at the interface (called as a spinterface) when it is placed next to a ferromagnet (FM). Formation of such spinterface happens due to orbital hybridization and spin polarized charge…
Superconductivity in the new polymerized C60 fullerite clathrate doped with simple metals was investigated through density functional theory methods. The phonon dispersion curves were systematically computed for the clathrate structures…
Several dimerization products of fullerene C60 are presented and thoroughly characterized with a quantum chemical DFT model augmented by dispersion. We reanalyze and expand significantly the number of known dimers from 12 to 41. Many of the…
Fullerene solids doped with alkali metals (A$_3$C$_{60}$, A = K, Rb, Cs) exhibit a superconducting transition temperature ($T_c$) as high as 40 K, and their unconventional superconducting properties have been a subject of debate. With…
We have explored new possible phases of 3D C60-based fullerites using semiempirical potentials and ab-initio density functional methods. We have found three closely related structures - two body centered orthorhombic and one body centered…
Large-scale practical applications of fullerene (C60) in nanodevices could be significantly facilitated if the commercially-available micrometer-scale raw C60 powder were further processed into a one-dimensional (1D) nanowire-related…
The structural, electronic, optical and vibrational properties of LiN$_3$ under high pressure have been studied using plane wave pseudopotentials within the generalized gradient approximation for the exchange and correlation functional. The…