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Characterization of Fine Structure and Mechanical Properties of the Disordered Carbon Materials Synthesized from C60 Fullerite under High Pressure

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Ball milling of C60 fullerite used thereafter as a precursor in high-pressure, high temperature (P, T) synthesis results in a remarkable gain in hardness HIT and indentation modulus EIT of the produced amorphous carbon (AC) phase whereas slightly decreases its elastic recovery compared to those of the nanoclustered graphene phase (NGP) produced under similar conditions from crystalline C60. We associate the profound change in the mechanical properties with the formation of a predominantly amorphous structure with smaller size and reduced number of graphene nanoclusters and higher content of sp3-bonded carbons due to higher probability of their formation upon high-pressure transformation of the ball-milled fullerite. We envision design and synthesis of new AC materials with enhanced mechanical properties based on the proposed pre-treatment of fullerite precursors and further tuning the synthesis P–T conditions.

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This work was performed as part of state task no. 075-01176-23-00.

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  1. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334, Moscow, Russia

    E. Drozdova, O. Chernogorova & I. Lukina

  2. Vereshchagin Institute of High Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142190, Moscow, Russia

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Drozdova, E., Chernogorova, O., Lukina, I. et al. Characterization of Fine Structure and Mechanical Properties of the Disordered Carbon Materials Synthesized from C60 Fullerite under High Pressure. Russ. Metall. 2023, 1309–1313 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036029523090148

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