Thermal conductivity of pressure polymerized C60

We have studied the kinetics of C60 polymerization in the temperature interval 450-500 K at pressures below 1 GPa by measurements of the time dependence of the thermal conductivity. It has been found at 450 K that the polymerization process at 0.8 GPa is slower than the reverse transformation from ''polymeric'' to ''monomeric'' phase at 0.08 GPa. The thermal conductivity λ of polymerized C60 was measured in the temperature range 100-430 K and found to increase with increasing temperature, which reflects strong phonon scattering. Both the presence of non-bonded C60 molecules and a high degree of structural disorder in the crystalline lattice of the polymeric phase might be responsible for the behaviour of λ(T). The results for λ(T) are qualitatively similar to those reported previously for C60 polymerized at higher p, T but an order of magnitude smaller. (orig.)