FORMATION OF CONICAL STRUCTURES DURING
THE GROWTH OF NANOFIBERS IN A GLOW
DISCHARGE PLASMA

F. N. Borovik and S. P. Fisenko

UDC 533.915:001.573

A theoretical model of the growth of conical carbon structures, 
when employing the "vapor<196>liquid<196>solid body" mechanism in 
a glow discharge plasma, is suggested. It is shown that the radius 
of a catalytic nanoparticle influences the cone apex angle.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; 
email: fsp@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 6, pp. 1094-1096, November-December, 
2008. Original article submitted July 7, 2008.