One-Step Environmentally Friendly Manufacturing Process for Inorganic Nanocomposite Materials Suitable for Industrial Upscaling
(Room Room 104-C)
30 Apr 19
9:40 AM
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10:00 AM
Tracks:
Enabling Sustainability — NexGen Tech for Coatings, Surface Engineering and Smart Manufacturing
Nanocomposite materials have made remarkable progress in recent years. The current and potential applications for these materials are growing and cover an extremely broad range of markets and industries. Despite their numerous applications, currently there are no commercially widespread solutions for large-scale nanocomposite production with accurate control of the composition and structure. Several barriers need to be lowered and streamlined to transfer emerging nanomaterials fabrication into economically viable manufacturing processes leading to a more competitive market penetration. Scalable, repeatable, cost-effective, high-precision and low environmental impact manufacturing methods are required to widely spread the use of the engineered nanomaterials into commercial products.
In this paper, we present one step manufacturing process for nanoparticles and nanocomposite materials based on magnetron sputtering technology. This approach allows to produce any kind of inorganic nanocomposites with any hazardous waste in a flexible and automate process. Nanocomposite materials formed by metallic nanoparticles embedded into dielectric matrix have been fabricated by co-sputtering with an ion cluster sourced attached to a semi industrial sputtering equipment. The optimization of the process has been done. The key process parameters have been studied and optical, electrical, mechanical and morphological properties of the layers have been deeply studied.