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Mobility of long-lived fullerene radical in solid state and nonlinear temperature dependence
Abe, Yoko,Tanaka, Hideyuki,Guo, Yunlong,Matsuo, Yutaka,Nakamura, Eiichi
, p. 3366 - 3369 (2014)
A singly bonded fullerene dimer [C60R]2 in the solid state thermally generates a pair of fullerene radicals C60R ? that dissociate reversibly and irreversibly upon heating and cooling of the solid. The temperature dependence of the electron mobility of the solid shows striking nonlinearity, caused by the dissociation of a strongly interacting radical pair into two free radicals, which interact with the neighboring fullerene molecules to increase the mobility 10 times to a value of 1.5 × 10-3 cm2 V-1 s-1. The nonlinearity is due to the plastic crystalline nature of fullerene crystals.
