Hyperthermal collisions of atomic clusters and fullerenes
Abstract
Among the many directions that mass spectrometry of atomic clusters and fullerenes have taken, analysis of their collisions with atoms, molecules. or surfaces has been particularly successful. We will first review experimental and theoretical work pertaining to hyperthermal collisions of charged or neutral clusters, including the formation of endohedral fullerenes. We will then present experimental data on the unimolecular formation of C(60)divided by and C-58+ from collisionally excited C-60. Based on recently proposed rate coefficients for dissociation and ionization of C-60 and C-58. we derive the efficiency of energy transfer, from translational to vibrational modes, for inelastic C-60 + K+ collisions. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Department
Physics
Publication Date
4-15-2004
Journal Title
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1016/j.ijms.2003.11.019
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Deng, R. and Echt, Olof E., "Hyperthermal collisions of atomic clusters and fullerenes" (2004). International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 56.
https://scholars.unh.edu/physics_facpub/56
Rights
© 2004 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.