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Shock-wave synthesis of fullerenes from graphite

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A new method of producing fullerenes is proposed which is based on the fact that in the rarefaction wave generated when the shock wave emerges on the free surface of shock-compressed graphite, the crystals can break up not into separate carbon atoms but into fullerene molecules. Results of experiments confirming formation of C60 in a graphite sample by means of a 30–35-Pa shock wave are presented.

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  1. Lavrent’ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk

    D. S. Dolgushin & V. F. Anisichkin

  2. Federal Research-and-Production Center “Altai,”, 659322, Biisk

    E. A. Petrov

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  1. D. S. Dolgushin
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Translated fromFizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 98–99, July–August 1999.

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Dolgushin, D.S., Anisichkin, V.F. & Petrov, E.A. Shock-wave synthesis of fullerenes from graphite. Combust Explos Shock Waves 35, 439–440 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02674479

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