Bond breaking and making in mixed clusters of fullerene and coronene molecules induced by keV-ion impact.

We have performed classical molecular dynamics simulations of 3 keV Ar + (CH)(C) collisions where (,) = (3,2),(1,4),(9,4) and (2,11). The simulated mass spectra of covalently bound reaction products reproduce the main features of the corresponding experimental results reported by Domaracka , , 2018, , 15052-15060. The present results support their conclusion that molecular growth is mainly driven by knockout where individual atoms are promptly removed in Rutherford type scattering processes.