6 articles in this issue
Daisuke Fukuhara, Shinichi Namba, Ken Takiyama
In a glow discharge, the sheath region that is formed around the cathode surface has a decisive effect on the generation of plasmas. In order to investigate the sheath structure in an atmospheric pressure plasma, we developed a microhollow cathode dischar... see more
Kazuki Kozue, Shinichi Namba, Takuma Endo, Ken Takiyama, Naoki Tamura
An arcjet plasma generator with a converging and diverging slit nozzle was constructed. This plasma source allowed us to directly observe the arc plasma in the discharge section, which provided useful information about a transition from ionizing thermal p... see more
Yuushou Nakayama, Yuuichi Sogo, Ryo Tanaka, Zhengguo Cai, Takeshi Shiono
A series of titanium complexes bearing ansa-(fluorenyl)(amido) ligands with cyclohexylamido, isopropylamido, and isobutylamido groups were synthesized and their catalytic behaviors for the copolymerization of ethylene with isobutylene were compared with t... see more
Kazuki Nishi, Shuhei Inoue, Yukihiko Matsumura
We have focused on the growth process of metal and carbon mixed clusters that are precursors for carbon nanotubes. The molecular dynamics method using the Brenner potential was employed for modeling carbon-carbon interactions as well as carbon-iron intera... see more
Yuya Katada, Singo Ikeno, Shota Murakami, Shinichi Namba, Ken Kakiyama, Kazutoshi Takenoshita, Hideo Nojima
Reactive species created by a microhollow cathode discharge (MHCD) in He+H2O mixtures were investigated at 160 Torr using the molecular beam mass spectrometry. Ion currents of He+, HeH+, O+, OH+, H+(H2O), and H+(H2O)2 were measured as functions of H2O rel... see more
Worawut Muangrat, Supanit Porntheeraphat, Winadda Wongwiriyapan
Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) were synthesized by alcohol catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at atmospheric pressure using different metal catalysts (Ni, Co and Fe) at growth temperature of 700oC. Ni and Fe exhibited as active catalysts for multi-wal... see more