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Intercalate displacement and exchange in graphite

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Abstract

The mechanism of intercalate transport in graphite was studied by sequential intercalation of bromine and iodine monochloride. It was found that the transport involved solid-state intercalate displacement such that the first intercalate molecule to enter an interlayer space is the first to reach the center of the graphite sample. Upon exposure of stage-2 graphite-bromine to ICI, the in-plane superlattice diffraction pattern was observed to change from that of graphite-bromine to that of graphite-ICl, while the ICl intercalate distributed itself uniformly at a concentration level above that of the bromine intercalate. This is interpreted as the expulsion of bromine by the in-coming ICl, which dissolved the remaining bromine to form a solid solution with the ICl in-plane structure.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)107-115
Number of pages9
JournalSynthetic Metals
Volume7
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1983

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