Pattern formation in plasma–solid interaction represents a great research challenge in many
applications from plasma etching to surface treatment, whereby plasma attachments on …

Atmospheric pressure plasmas have high reactivity due to the formation of multiple excited
and ionized species while not requiring vacuum facilities. These plasmas play an important …

Unified 1D numerical modeling of high-pressure high-current arc discharges is revisited.
Two regimes of current transfer to anodes are investigated. The “passive anode” regime …

A direct current (DC) arc discharge is a widely used method for large-scale production of
metal nanoparticles, core-shell particles, and carbon nanotubes. Here, the growth of iron …

A novel DC arc plasma torch is designed in this paper in order to reduce the electrode
erosion, and a series of experiments are carried out to investigate how to improve the …

According to the classic theory of nucleation around a charged particle, dipoles induced in
the particle's neighbors by the charged nucleation center decrease the electric field around …

Recent one-dimensional simulations of planar sheaths with strong electron emission have
shown that trapping of charge-exchange ions causes transitions from space-charge limited …

A direct current (DC) arc discharge is a widely used method for industrial-scale production of
single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT). A high-selectivity synthesis of SWCNT requires …

In the atmospheric pressure anodic carbon arc, ablation of the anode serves as a feedstock
of carbon for production of nanomaterials. It is known that the ablation of the graphite anode …

A graphite anode ablates in an arc system producing nanoparticles. Experiments show that
the ablation rate increases sharply when the current density at the anode exceeds some …