Study of the modification of spherical melamine-formaldehyde particles levitating in complex plasma


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Abstract

The surface modification of spherical melamine-formaldehyde particles during their levitation in a dusty plasma as a part of plasma–dust structures in a trap formed in strata in a neon glow discharge has been investigated using scanning electron microscopy. The dependence of the particle size on the time of plasma exposure has been found and measured, and the modification of the surface structure has been studied. The source of the observed modification has been interpreted.

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V. Yu. Karasev

St. Petersburg State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: v.karasev@spbu.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034

V. A. Polishchyuk

St. Petersburg State University; St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics

Email: v.karasev@spbu.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034; Kronverkskiy pr. 49, St. Petersburg, 197101

A. P. Gorbenko

St. Petersburg State University

Email: v.karasev@spbu.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034

E. S. Dzlieva

St. Petersburg State University

Email: v.karasev@spbu.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034

M. A. Ermolenko

St. Petersburg State University

Email: v.karasev@spbu.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034

M. M. Makar

St. Petersburg State University

Email: v.karasev@spbu.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034

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