Ceramics and Composite Materials

Sergey Sokovnin has his expertise in pulse power technique, radiation technology and nanotechnology. He has developed a method for production of nano powders, including evaporation of a target by a pulsed electron beam, condensation of the vapor of the material in a low-pressure gas, and deposition of nano powders on a large cold square crystallizer. By this method, it is possible to produce oxide nano powders with the characteristic size of 3-5 nm and nano powder agglomerates with the characteristic size of 20-200 nm having the specific surface of up to 338 m2/g at the production rate of up to 10 g/h and the specific energy consumption of less than 120 Wh/g.