FTIR AND MICRO-RAMAN SPECTRA OF POLYMER NANOSTRUCTURES UNDER PRESSURE

Studies of metastable C60 forms obtained at high pressures and tempera tures and other polymer carbon structures up to nanostructures have be en performed over a wide spectral range using FTIR and micro-Raman tec hniques. FTIR spectra of carbon-based polymer materials( pristine full erenes, nanostructures, and diamond-like C60 forms) were studied in th e range from 1600 to 300 cm(-1). The micro-Raman spectra of the carbon -based materials and their new forms obtained under the conditions of high energy impacts allowed us to determine the level of disorder in t hese polymer forms of carbon and to study the formation of new structu res up to superhard ones.