Nanomaterial Production by Arc Discharge Sputtering of Silicon-Graphite and Silica-Graphite Composite Anodes
This study presents results of an arc discharge synthesis of nanomaterials containing graphene and nanoparticles of SiC ceramic. It has been established that the usage of the silicon-carbon composition of the sputtered electrode in the arc discharge synthesis allows to synthesize graphene structures with silicon carbide nanoparticles with the average size of about 6.2 nm. On the other hand, the usage of the graphite-silica composite electrode also leads to the formation of graphene structures, but at the same time the resulting nanoparticles of silicon carbide have the larger average size of about 9.5 nm. This paper presents the results of the structure analyses of the synthesized materials and offers the explanation for effects of the silicon oxide usage on the increasing in the average size of synthesized SiC nanoparticles.