Coalescence of fullerenes into giant fullerenes (C nn> 100) has been observed in the gas
phase and inside carbon nanotubes. In this work, we demonstrate the formation of giant …

We present experimental evidence for the dominance of prompt single-atom knockout in
fragmenting collisions between large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon cations and He atoms …

Fast heavy-ion collisions with molecules that constitute a liquid are fundamental to the field
of radiation chemistry and its application to biology. However, although collision-induced …

The geometric structures and reaction dynamics of clusters of carbon fullerene molecules
are reviewed. The topics on structure cover the elementary building blocks, the interatomic …

We present scaling laws for absolute cross sections for non-statistical fragmentation in
collisions between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH/PAH+) and hydrogen or helium …

We have measured absolute cross sections for ultrafast (femtosecond) single-carbon
knockout from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) cations as functions of He–PAH …

Non-statistical fragmentation processes may be important when Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbon molecules (PAHs), fullerenes, or other large complex molecules collide with …

We show that the energetic processing of C 60 clusters by slow atomic projectiles leads to
ultrafast (< ps) formation of large covalent carbon nanoparticles containing a few hundreds …

Dumbbell-shaped fullerene dimers C 118+ and C 119+ have recently been observed in
mass spectra resulting from collisions between clusters of C 60 molecules and keV He 2+ or …

Aims. Due to the limitations of current computational technology, the fragmentation and
isomerization products of vibrationally-excited polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) …