We studied the coating of C60 nanorods with nickel by electroless plating method and investigated their magnetic properties. The morphology and structure of the nickel layer coated on C60 nanorods were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy. The coated nickel is in the form of nano-sized crystals and becomes a continuous layer as reaction time increases. The hysteresis loop shows a super paramagnetic characteristic similar to that of nanometer-sized nickel particle. These results suggest that the average size of nickel particles on C60 rods is below 10 nm. Our study has shown that electroless plating is an efficient and simple method for coating C60 nanorods with nickel.
CHEN Ao LIU BingBing HOU YuanYuan WEN GeHui LIU DeDi LU ShuangChen LI ZePeng LI XiangLin ZOU YongGang ZOU Bo LI DongMei CUI Tian ZOU GuangTian
The structure and properties of a 16-atom body-centered cubic lithium cell with an interstitial hydrogen atom are studied using a pseudopotential-plane-wave method within the density functional theory at 0 K and high pressures. The host lattice is dra-matically distorted by the introduction of H. Although the hydrogen atom is stable at the tetragonal site in perfect bcc host lattice,it favors the octahedral site formed by six non-equivalent Li atoms after full relaxation of the cell,showing P4/mmm symmetry within the pressures ranging from 0 to 6 GPa. The lattice ratio (a/c) changes irregularly with external pressure at about 3 GPa. The hydrogen band lies in the bottom of the valence band,separated by a gap from the metallic bands,illustrating the electronegativity of hydrogen. High reflectivity in the low frequency area induced by the impurity hydrogen is observed when only interband transitions are taken account of. A dip in reflectivity due to parallel band transitions is observed at ～0.4 eV. Another dip at ～4.3 eV appears when external pressure increases over 4 GPa.
LIU Zhiming MA Yanming HE Zhi GUI Tian HE Wenjiong LIU Bingbing ZOU Guangtian
