Laser Assisted Synthesis of Nanomaterials: Processing, Characterization and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 481
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Interests: nanomaterials; laser processing; electrochemistry; phase transformation; texture; microstructure
Interests: nanomaterials; polymers and composites; supercapacitors; energy; nanotechnology; green materials
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Dear Colleagues,
The size- and shape-dependent physico-chemical characteristics of nanomaterials are paving the way for manipulating their applicability in various sectors at a tremendously increasing rate. Tailoring of such properties of nanomaterials, which are unique compared with those of their bulk material state, is mainly controlled by nanomaterial synthesis/fabrication methods. To this end, two approaches are most common – bottom-up and top-down. Of these, utilization of laser in fabricating nanomaterials/nanostructures is an unconventional top-down method, considering its versatile nature of controllability over the nucleation and growth of nanomaterials from bulk.
Laser assisted synthesis of nanomaterials is achieved by laser ablation in air as well as liquid environments on a wide range of materials, including semiconductors and metals, resulting in nanoparticles of very unique phases triggered at very high temperature/pressure in the laser ablated location. The complex morphologies (particles, cubes, rods, composites) of different compositions (oxides, carbides, metals, alloys) are another scientifically interesting aspect apparent with laser ablation. Coupling of laser ablation with laser texturing and laser shock processing is another new approach in recent times and involves nano-second to femto-second pulsed lasers.
This Special Issue aims to bring together all fields relevant to laser technologies for the synthesis of nanomaterials/nanostructures, covering all aspects of their processing, characterization and applications.
Topics of interest for this Special issue include but are not limited to:
- Laser ablation for nanomaterials synthesis
- Laser assisted chemical vapor deposition
- Pulsed laser deposition
- Laser shock processing and texturing
- Laser based polymer nanocomposites prototyping
- Phase transformation during nanomaterials synthesis
- Fabrication of complex nanostructures using laser
- Physico-chemical properties of laser ablated nanomaterials
- Characterizations of nanomaterials synthesized using laser assisted methods
- Applications of nanomaterials obtained via laser based synthesis methods
Dr. Karthik Dhandapani
Dr. Kalim Deshmukh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Laser Ablation
- Nanomaterials
- Polymer Composites
- Metal NPs
- Phase Transformation
- Physico-Chemical Properties of Nanomaterials
- Nanocomposites
- Applications of Nanomaterials Synthesized via Laser
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