Fullerenes

Fullerenes or "buckyballs,"a new carbon-based family of materials, have fascinated the scientific community for the past few years. These materials are likely to find applications ranging from lubricants to batteries to biological magic bullets, which will be of great importance in the science and technology of the next century. This carefully edited volume, the first to include Frans Spaepen as co-editor, summarizes our present understanding in a series of didacticarticles, which take the reader from the fundamentals to the present cutting-edge research. A general overview is followed by chapters devoted to synthesis and characterization of fullerenes and their derivatives, the novel structural properties of buckyballs, tubes, and buckyonions, a theoretical and experimental view of electrons and phonons, and finally to the fascinating superconducting properties of these materials.

• Presents systematic overview of entire field
• Discusses synthesis, characterization, structure, and superconducting properties
• Specially edited volume of the distinguished Solid State Physics Series
• Includes applications from many fields

1;Front Cover;1 2;Solid State Physics, Volume 48;4 3;Copyright Page;5 4;Contents;6 5;Contributors to volume 48;8 6;Preface;10 7;Chapter 1. Solid State Properties of Fullerenes and Fullerene-Based Materials;14 7.1;I. Introduction;14 7.2;II. Fullerenes in Gas Phase and Solution;26 7.3;III. Fullerenes in Solid State;31 7.4;IV. Doped Fullerenes FuIIerides;73 7.5;V. Endofullerenes;102 7.6;VI. Tubes, Capsules, and Onions;108 7.7;VII. Summary and Prospects;119 7.8;Acknowledgments;120 8;Chapter 2. Preparation of Fullerrnes and Fullerene Based Materials;122 8.1;I. Introduction;122 8.2;II. Fullerene Clusters;125 8.3;III. Metal-Doped C60 Materials;141 8.4;IV. New Fullerene Building Blocks;155 8.5;V. Concluding Remarks;160 9;Chapter 3. Structure and Dynamics of Crystalline C60;162 9.1;I. Introduction;163 9.2;II. Theoretical Considerations and Some Consequences;165 9.3;III. Experimental Aspects of the Scattering from the fcc Phase;183 9.4;IV. Experimental Aspects of the sc Phase;202 9.5;V. Phonons;219 9.6;VI. Summary;234 9.7;Acknowledgments;235 9.8;Glossary of Symbols;236 10;Chapter 4. Electrons and Phonons in C60-Based Materials;238 10.1;I. Introduction;239 10.2;II. Electrons on the C60 Molecule;244 10.3;III. Dynamics of the C60 Molecule and Solids;266 10.4;IV. Crystals Structures;289 10.5;V. C60 Crystals: Local Density Calculations;302 10.6;VI. Electronic Spectroscopies; Coulomb Interactions;318 10.7;VII. Electron-Phonon Coupling;331 10.8;VIII. Transport, Thermodynamic, Infrared Properties;336 10.9;IX. Superconductivity;345 10.10;X. Summary;359 10.11;Acknowledgments;359 11;Chapter 5. Phsyical Properties of Metal-Doped Fullerene Superconductors;362 11.1;I. Introduction;362 11.2;II. Normal and Superconducting State Phenomenology;365 11.3;III. Possible Mechanisms and Other Physical Properties;376 11.4;IV. Concluding Remarks;397 12;Author Index;398 13;Subject Index;432 14;Cumulative Author Index;440