Elsevier

Chemical Physics

Volume 179, Issue 3, 1 February 1994, Pages 595-605
Chemical Physics

Atomic force microscopy characterization of stable faces in cubic C60 and hexagonal C60, 2CCl4 single crystals

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Abstract

Well-developed surfaces of crystals of pure C60 grown in various experimental conditions have been examined by atomic force microscopy. To out knowledge, macroscopic “pure” faces of bulk crystals have not been studied by near-field microscopies. The crystals obtained by sublimation or by rapid evaporation of C60 solutions in toluene have a fcc structure. By slow evaporation of fullerene C60 solution CCl4 at room temperature, a stable solvate C60, 2CCl4 crystallizes in a simple hexagonal system, with a flat large (0001) surface. The morphological habits of the fcc crystal show macroscopically well-defined (100) and (111) faces, with some examples of faces which cannot be attributed unambiguously. For the first time, AFM images have been obtained for all these faces. In every case, molecular resolution has been achieved. The (100) face of the fcc crystal, which has been shown by SEM to accumulate impurities, appears at a molecular scale to be constituted by a juxtaposition of micro domains, each of which having all the angle and distance characteristics of the (100) face. The AFM images demonstrate directly that the molecular arrangement is the same on the (111) face of the fcc crystal of pure C60 as on the (0001) face of the hexagonal crystal of the C60, 2CCl4 solvate. Measurements on AFM images of a face that could not be indexed give results which induce us to assign tentatively this surface to the (311) face of the crystal.

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