Pressure dependence of the structural phase transition in C60

Abstract
The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the temperature of the structural phase transition in crystalline C60 is investigated by differential thermal analysis in the pressure range of 1 bar to 5 kbar. The transition temperature increases linearly with pressure at a rate of 11.7 K/kbar. An upper limit of the relative change of the lattice parameter, obtained from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, is Δa/a=2.5×10-3.Variable syntax