Electric Discharge Plasmochemical Synthesis of Carbon Nanomaterials

Abstract

High-energy electric discharge technologies (electric breakdown and HF volume discharge in organic media) for a large scale synthesis of amorphous carbon (AC) are developed. A destruction of hydrocarbon molecules into separate fragments occurs during such processing of organic media, what results in AC formation in the process of ultra-fast cooling of the clusters. To investigate the influence of chemical nature of working media, organic liquids and gases from the class of arenes with sp2-hybridisation of carbon atoms in molecule and alkanes with sp3-hybridisation were used. Performed XRD, HRTEM and Raman studies showed that produced powders are typical amorphous materials with significant degree of disorder. But only in the case of electric breakdown of alkanes, carbon nanomaterials with complex core-shell structure were discovered. Individual particles of onion-like carbon (OLC) consist of ~ 5 nm core surrounded by graphitic shell of 5-6 layers. Synthesized OLC is used as antifriction additives to industrial oils and as material for electromagnetic waves shielding. The statistical analysis of the atomic structure of the synthesized materials using reverse Monte Carlo and Voronoi-Delaunay methods was performed. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/35099