On the diffraction pattern of C60 peapods

Abstract

We present detailed calculations of the diffraction pattern of a powder of bundles of C${}_{60}$ peapods. The influence of all pertinent structural parameters of the bundles on the diffraction diagram is discussed, which should lead to a better interpretation of X-ray and neutron diffraction diagrams. We illustrate our formalism for X-ray scattering experiments performed on peapod samples synthesized from 2 different technics, which present different structural parameters. We propose and test different criteria to solve the difficult problem of the filling rate determination.

Sumitted 19 May 2004

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