Nanoparticles Engineering by Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquids: Concepts and Applications.
Enza FazioBilal GökceAlessandro De GiacomoMoreno MeneghettiGiuseppe CompagniniMatteo TommasiniFriedrich WaagAndrea LucottiChiara Giuseppina ZanchiPaolo Maria OssiMarcella Dell'AglioLuisa D'UrsoMarcello CondorelliVittorio ScardaciFrancesca BiscagliaLucio LittiMarina GobboGiovanni GalloMarco SantoroSebastiano TrussoFortunato NeriPublished in: Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) (2020)
Laser synthesis emerges as a suitable technique to produce ligand-free nanoparticles, alloys and functionalized nanomaterials for catalysis, imaging, biomedicine, energy and environmental applications. In the last decade, laser ablation and nanoparticle generation in liquids has proven to be a unique and efficient technique to generate, excite, fragment and conjugate a large variety of nanostructures in a scalable and clean way. In this work, we give an overview on the fundamentals of pulsed laser synthesis of nanocolloids and new information about its scalability towards selected applications. Biomedicine, catalysis and sensing are the application areas mainly discussed in this review, highlighting advantages of laser-synthesized nanoparticles for these types of applications and, once partially resolved, the limitations to the technique for large-scale applications.