Tuning the Spatially Controlled Growth, Structural Self-Organizing and Cluster-Assembling of the Carbyne-Enriched Nano-Matrix during Ion-Assisted Pulse-Plasma Deposition

• Published in: Fluid dynamics & materials processing Vol. 18; no. 6; pp. 1763 - 1779
• Main Authors: Lukin, Alexander, Gülseren, Oğuz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Duluth Tech Science Press 2022
• Subjects: Acoustics; Carbon; Carbyne; Diamonds; Electric fields; Enrichment; Graphene; Graphite; Inhomogeneous electric fields; Metamaterials; Microscopy; Nanomaterials; Plasma; Plasma deposition; Radiation; Radioisotopes; Synchronism
• ISSN: 1555-2578; 1555-256X; 1555-2578
• DOI: 10.32604/fdmp.2022.022016

Carbyne-enriched nanomaterials are of current interest in nanotechnology-related applications. The properties of these nanomaterials greatly depend on their production process. In particular, structural self-organization and auto-synchronization of nanostructures are typical phenomena observed during the growth and heteroatom-doping of carbyne-enriched nanostructured metamaterials by the ion-assisted pulse-plasma deposition method. Accordingly, fine tuning of these processes may be seen as the key step to the predictive designing of carbyne-enriched nano-matrices with improved properties. In particular, we propose an innovative concept, connected with application of the vibrational-acoustic effects and based on universal Cymatics mechanisms. These effects are used to induce vibration-assisted self-organized wave patterns together with the simultaneous manipulation of their properties through an electric field. Interaction between the inhomogeneous electric field distribution generated on the vibrating layer and the plasma ions serves as the additional energizing factor controlling the local pattern formation and self-organization of the nano-structures.