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Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3522–3524 (1996)

Insertion of Be Atoms in C60 Fullerene Cages: BeC60

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Tsutomu Ohtsuki1,2 and Kazuyoshi Masumoto1
1Laboratory of Nuclear Science, Tohoku University, Mikamine, Taihaju, Sendai 982, Japan
2Institut für Kernchemie, Universität Mainz, D-6500 Mainz, Germany

Kaoru Ohno3,4, Yutaka Maruyma3, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe3
3Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-77, Japan
4Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Keisuke Sueki5 and Koichi Kikuchi5
5Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-03, Japan

Received 31 May 1996; published in the issue dated 21 October 1996

Radioactive endohedral 7Be@C60 can be detected using radiochemical and radiochromatographic techniques in the final solvent. Such a 7Be atom can penetrate into the C60 cage to produce 7Be@C60 by a recoil process of the nuclear reactions. An ab initio molecular dynamics simulation was carried out to demonstrate that a direct insertion process is really possible. Both the experimental and the theoretical results were consistent with each other.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3522
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3522
PACS:
36.40.-c, 61.72.Ww
 
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