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Figure 5.6. Structure of the CEO fullerene molecule.<br />

5.3. CARBON CLUSTERS 11 1<br />

a<strong>to</strong>m it becomes electrically conducting. Figure 5.7 shows the location of the alkali<br />

a<strong>to</strong>ms in the lattice where they occupy the two vacant tetrahedral sites and a larger<br />

octahedral site per c.50 molecule. In the tetrahedral site the alkali a<strong>to</strong>m has four<br />

surrounding c60 balls, and in the octahedral site there are six surrounding c60<br />

TETRAHEDRAL<br />

SITE<br />

Figure 5.7. Crystal lattice unit cell of Cso molecules (large spheres) doped with alkali a<strong>to</strong>ms<br />

(dark circles). [From F. J. Owens and C. P. Poole, Jr., The New Superconducfors, Plenum,<br />

1998.1

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