2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Fundamental study on optimization of nanocarbon materials fabrication technique using an atmospheric-pressure plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23560325
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Power engineering/Power conversion/Electric machinery
Research Institution	Chiba Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	ODA Akinori 千葉工業大学, 工学部, 教授 (70335090)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	ナノカーボン材料 / プラズマＣＶＤ / 大気圧プラズマ / シミュレーション
Research Abstract	In this research project, numerical simulation of non-thermal atmospheric-pressure hydrocarbon plasmas has been conducted using a one-dimensional fluid model, in order to examine whether volumetric and radially-uniform atmospheric-pressure plasmas can be obtained. Usually, hydrocarbon plasmas at low-pressure can be utilized for the fabrication of nanocarbon materials such as diamond-like carbon, diamond, graphene, carbon nanotube, etc. As a result, it is clarified that the volumetric and radially-uniform plasmas at atmospheric-pressure hydrocarbon gas, which are suitable for novel technique of plasma CVD, can not be produced, since electron multiplication, which is important factor for plasma generation, tends to increase rapidly under atmospheric-pressure hydrocarbon condition. Therefore, we need to further investigation on this project, in order to overcome this problem.

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