C60
C60, also known as Buckminsterfullerene is composed of carbon atoms.
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Girifalco potential
The Girifalco intermolecular pair potential is given by [1] (Eq. 4):
where
where is the number of atoms on each sphere, i.e. N=60.
References
Related reading
- M. H. J. Hagen, E. J. Meijer, G. C. A. M. Mooij, D. Frenkel and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker "Does C60 have a liquid phase?", Nature 365 pp. 425-426 (1993)
- Ailan Cheng, Michael L. Klein and Carlo Caccamo "Prediction of the phase diagram of rigid C60 molecules", Physical Review Letters 71 pp. 1200-1203 (1993)
- L. Mederos and G. Navascués "High-temperature phase diagram of the fullerene C60" Physical Review B 50 pp. 1301-1304 (1994)
- C. Caccamo "Modified-hypernetted-chain determination of the phase diagram of rigid C60 molecules", Physical Review B 51 pp. 3387-3390 (1995)
- M. Hasegawa and K. Ohno "Density functional theory for the phase diagram of rigid C60 molecules", Physical Review E 54 pp. 3928-3932 (1996)
- C. Caccamo, D. Costa, and A. Fucile "A Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo study of phase coexistence in model C60", Journal of Chemical Physics 106 pp. 255- (1997)
- M. Hasegawa and K. Ohno "Monte Carlo simulation study of the high-temperature phase diagram of model C60 molecules", Journal of Chemical Physics 111 pp. 5955- (1999)
- Pedro Orea "Phase diagrams of model C60 and C70 fullerenes from short-range attractive potentials", Journal of Chemical Physics 130, 104703 (2009)