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Electron microscopy is used in a study of nanoclusters of the carbon soot deposited on a probe in different areas of arc discharge during graphite vaporization under conditions favorable for fullerene synthesis. It is found that the spatial network of soot nanoclusters consists of alternating regions of higher density or associates of carbon particles. Two types of nanoclusters have been identified with the correlation radii of the associates equal to 0.6–0.8 and 1.6–2.2 nm, respectively. Type I nanoclusters are dominant in the soot microparticles, and their structure shows practically no variations with increasing separation r of the soot collector from the discharge axis over the range of distances studied, r=1–9 cm. The effective radius R 0 of the “elementary” particles making up the associates in the soot nanoclusters of Type I calculated with the use of scaling relationships is 0.15–0.17 nm and is close to the gas-kinetic radius of carbon atoms. Type II nanoclusters have been identified in soot collected at r>3 cm. Values of R 0 calculated in this case are 0.6–0.9 nm and decrease with increasing r, which indicates the presence of fullerene molecules in these nanocluster associates.
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Translated from Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 72, No. 10, 2002, pp. 134–137.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Gorelik, Dyuzhev, Novikov, O\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \)chenko, Sitnikova.
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Gorelik, O.P., Dyuzhev, G.A., Novikov, D.V. et al. Structure of fullerene-containing soot at different formation stages of arc discharge vaporization of graphite. Tech. Phys. 47, 1337–1340 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1514819
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