Carbon is an element with extremely versatile bonding properties and theoretical
calculations have suggested the possible existence of several hundred structural allotropes …

Helium droplets represent a cold inert matrix, free of walls with outstanding properties to
grow complexes and clusters at conditions that are perfect to simulate cold and dense …

Structural phase transitions of C 60 under high-pressure and high-temperature are
presented in a concise overview extracted from updated literature. Primarily focused on …

Mechanical properties (Vicker's hardness, Young's modulus, and fracture toughness
coefficient) have been studied for the three-dimensionally polymerized, amorphous, and …

A number of metastable ordered and disordered carbon phases have been prepared from
fullerite C 60 by heating to different temperatures at 12.5 GPa and subsequent quenching to …

A review has been presented on the structural and mechanical properties of hard carbon
phases synthesized from fullerite C 60 under pressure. The density and nanostructure have …

The geometrically optimized structure and properties of thirteen diamond-like carbon phases
formed by linking or combining fullerene-like clusters (C 4, C 6, C 8, C 12, C 16, C 24, or C …

Unhydrogenated amorphous carbon films were deposited by rf magnetron sputtering at
room temperature. In situ spectroscopic ellipsometry and real time ellipsometry were used to …

The elastic properties of C 60 fullerite samples synthesized under pressure P= 13.0 GPa at
high temperatures were investigated using acoustic microscopy. The velocities of …

Atomic level quantities are valuable tools in probing the local structural characteristics of
amorphous materials. In this paper, we utilize the concept of atomic level stresses to study …