Photoinduced polymerization of solid C60 films

Science

Volumn 259, Issue 5097, 1993, Pages 955-957

  Rao, A M ^a   Zhou, Ping ^a   Wang, Kai An ^a   Hager, G T ^a   Holden, J M ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Lee, W T ^a   Bi, Xiang Xin ^a   Eklund, P C ^a   Cornett, D S ^b   Duncan, M A ^b   Amster, I J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILMS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMERIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CARBON 60 FILMS; PHOTOINDUCED POLYMERIZATION;

CARBON;

EID: 0027543559     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.259.5097.955     Document Type: Article

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29. This work was funded, in part, by the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research and, at the University of Georgia, by NSF grants CHEM-9008246 (M.A.D.) and CHE-9024992 (I.J.A.). We thank A. W. Overhauser (Purdue University) for discussions on the possibility of photoinduced polymerization. Discussions with K. R. Subbaswamy (University of Kentucky), F. Zerbetto (Bologna University), and M. S. Dresselhaus and G. Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are also gratefully acknowledged.