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XXII International Conference on the Use of Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter Research (RNICS-2012), St. Petersburg, Zelenogorsk (October 15-19, 2012)
Complementary neutron and synchrotron investigations of matter

Neutron diffraction study of the interaction of iron with amorphous fullerite

P. A. Borisova^a, S. S. Agafonov^a, M. S. Blanter^b, V. A. Somenkov<sup>a

a</sup> National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow
^b Moscow State University of Instrumental Engineering and Computer Science, Moscow, 107996, Russia

Abstract: The amorphous fullerite C$_{60}$ has been prepared by mechanical activation (grinding in a ball mill), and its interaction with iron during sintering of powders with 0–95 at% Fe has been studied. After sintering in the range 800–1200$^\circ$C under a pressure of 70 MPa, the samples have nonequilibrium structures different from the structures of both annealed and quenched steels. In this case, the carbon phase, i.e., amorphous fullerite, undergoes a polyamorphous transition to amorphous graphite. It has also been shown that the interaction of amorphous fullerite with iron is weaker compared to crystalline fullerite or crystalline graphite.

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2014, 56:1, 199–202

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