Transformation of metal-oxide nanostructures in the process of afteroxidation of iron reactively evaporated in oxygen atmosphere |
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Authors: | V A Kotenev D N Tyurin A Yu Tsivadze M R Kiselev V V Vysotskii V I Zolotarevskii |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Vienna, Waehringer Strasse 38, 1090 Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | The methods of atomic force microscopy combined with the digital processing of images were used to study the change in the
morphology of nanostructured metal-oxide coatings obtained by reactive evaporation at 10−6 torr in the atmosphere of oxygen and further low-temperature iron afteroxidation in an air atmosphere at different temperatures.
It is shown that a nanostructured layer with a unimodal distribution according to the size and degree of nonsphericity of
the particle is formed in the case of sputtering. Using the sample detection methods, it is shown that a unimodal distribution
is transformed into a bimodal distribution at an increase in the reoxidation temperature from 50 to 200°C, after which it
becomes a trimodal distribution, which proves that the building blocks of a nanostructured layer are nanoparticles and four-
and 16-particle surface nanoparticle conglomerates. This structure can explain the functional properties of these coatings,
which are of practical importance. |
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