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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 109, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3599887
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [21110002]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22110503, 21110002] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Pulsed laser ablation (wavelength 532 nm; fluence 18 J/cm(2); pulse width 7 ns; repetition rate 10 Hz) of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite was conducted in adamantane-dissolved supercritical CO2 with and without cyclohexane as a cosolvent. Micro-Raman spectroscopy of the products revealed the presence of hydrocarbons possessing sp(3)-hybridized carbons similar to diamond structures. The synthesis of diamantane and other possible diamondoids consisting of up to 12 cages was confirmed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Furthermore, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry measurements of samples before and after pyrolysis treatment indicate the synthesis of the most compact decamantane, namely, superadamantane. It is thought that oxidant species originating from CO2 during pulsed laser ablation might lead to the selective dissociation of C-H bonds, enabling the synthesis of low H/C ratio molecules. Therefore, laser ablation in supercritical CO2 is proposed as a practical method for synthesizing diamondoids. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3599887]
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