Unlayered graphenes in red-giant starsmoke

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2006-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606093v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

8 pages, 10 figs, 31 refs, RevTeX4 cf. http://www.umsl.edu/~fraundor/isocore.html

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Electron diffraction, imaging, and energy loss provide evidence for unlayered graphene sheets in the core of certain interstellar graphite onions (from the meteorite Murchison) whose isotopes indicate formation in the atmosphere of late-stage asymptotic giant branch stars (like those which nucleo-synthesized much of the earth's carbon). The data are compared to structural models loosely associated with atom-by-atom, molecule-by-molecule, and dendritic-droplet solidification processes. In this context the observed density, diffraction peak-shapes, and edge-on sheet patterns, along with theoretical limits on time for growth in the presence of outgoing radiation pressure, suggest nucleation of hexagonal sheets from pentagons, perhaps from a supercooled melt. These results warrant a closer examination of specimen structure, the energetics of unlayered graphene nucleation, and processes such as jets in late star atmospheres.

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