Abstract
Amorphous carbon (a-C) in solid state is a rather big family of carbon materials with many types of short-range and medium-range orders (SRO and MRO). From thermodynamic point of view any a-C is a non-ergodic and non-equilibrium system. The diffusional structure relaxation time in graphite and diamond at T < 103 K is huge because the activation energy of this process is estimated to be larger than 7 eV. In a-C the structure relaxation processes are also very slow at those temperatures. Therefore many forms of a-C are rather stable to be used and investigated.
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Bakai, A.S., Fateev, M.P., Turkin, Y.A. (2001). Topology, Properties and Thermodynamics of Amorphous Carbon. In: Benedek, G., Milani, P., Ralchenko, V.G. (eds) Nanostructured Carbon for Advanced Applications. NATO Science Series, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0858-7_10
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