The quest for inorganic fullerenes

Pietsch, Susanne; Dollinger, Andreas; Strobel, Christoph H.; Park, Eun Ji; Ganteför, Gerd; Seo, Hyun Ook; Kim, Young Dok; Idrobo, Juan-Carlos; Pennycook, Stephen J.

doi:10.1063/1.4932143

Title: The quest for inorganic fullerenes

Journal Article · Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4932143· OSTI ID:1265808

Pietsch, Susanne ^[1]; Dollinger, Andreas ^[1]; Strobel, Christoph H. ^[1]; Park, Eun Ji ^[2]; Ganteför, Gerd ^[1]; Seo, Hyun Ook ^[3]; Kim, Young Dok ^[2]; Idrobo, Juan-Carlos ^[4]; Pennycook, Stephen J. ^[5]

Univ. of Konstanz (Germany)
Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Republic of Korea)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
National Univ., of Singapore (Singapore)

Experimental results of the search for inorganic fullerenes are presented. Mo_nS_m - and W_nS_m- clusters are generated with a pulsed arc cluster ion source equipped with an annealing stage. This is known to enhance fullerene formation in the case of carbon. Analogous to carbon, the mass spectra of the metal chalcogenide clusters produced in this way exhibit a bimodal structure. Moreover, the species in the first maximum at low mass are known to be platelets. The structure of the species in the second maximum is studied by anion photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, and scanning tunneling microcopy. All experimental results indicate a two-dimensional structure of these species and disagree with a three-dimensional fullerene-like geometry. A possible explanation for this preference of two-dimensional structures is the ability of a two-element material to saturate the dangling bonds at the edges of a platelet by excess atoms of one element. A platelet consisting of a single element only cannot do this. Likewise, graphite and boron might be the only materials forming nano-spheres because they are the only single element materials assuming two-dimensional structures.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; GA 389/15-1

OSTI ID:: 1265808

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 118, Issue 13; ISSN 0021-8979

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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