FTIR and micro-Raman spectra of polymer nanostructures under pressure

Studies of metastable C60 forms obtained at high pressures and temperatures and other polymer carbon structures up to nanostructures have been performed over a wide spectral range using FTIR and micro-Raman techniques. FTIR spectra of carbon-based polymer materials( pristine fullerenes, nanostructures, and diamond-like C60 forms) were studied in the range from 1600 to 300 cm(-1). The micro-Raman spectra of the carbon-based materials and their new forms obtained under the conditions of high energy impacts allowed us to determine the level of disorder in these polymer forms of carbon and to study the formation of new structures up to superhard ones.