Abstract
Laser interactions have traditionally been at the center of nanomaterials science, providing highly nonequilibrium growth conditions to enable the synthesis of novel new nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanowires with metastable phases. Simultaneously, lasers provide unique opportunities for the remote characterization of nanomaterial size, structure, and composition through tunable laser spectroscopy, scattering, and imaging. Pulsed lasers offer the opportunity, therefore, to supply the required energy and excitation to both control and understand the growth processes of nanomaterials, providing valuable views of the typically nonequilibrium growth kinetics and intermediates involved. Here we illustrate the key challenges and progress in laser interactions for the synthesis and in situ diagnostics of nanomaterials through recent examples involving primarily carbon nanomaterials, including the pulsed growth of carbon nanotubes and graphene.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 143-173 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Journal | Springer Series in Materials Science |
| Volume | 191 |
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| State | Published - 2014 |
Funding
Synthesis science sponsored by the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy. Characterization science and explorations of functionality performed at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, and high-resolution electron microscopy was performed in part at the Shared Research Equipment Collaborative Research Center, which are both sponsored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Scientific User Facilities Division, U.S. Department of Energy.