Nanostructure Ag and Cu coatings on powder materials

E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute, Kyiv/Ukraine, 15 p.Functional coatings are an integral part of practically all kinds of products made by man, for instance, the poisonous coating on the tip of an arrow, the protective coating of a cosmonaut descent capsule with the cosmonaut of the space vehicle or a soluble shell of a drug. Depending on coating purpose, various materials, structures and processing methods are applied. Among the numerous modern chemical, electrochemical and physical methods and technologies to produce coatings, physical processes of evaporation and condensation of various materials in vacuum are certainly noteworthy. Condensation of the vapors of various materials in vacuum provides a unique complex of methods to produce both new materials and coatings with micro- and nanosized structure.