HANDBOOK OF LASER SYNTHESIS OF COLLOIDS

Two decades after the first colloidal nanoparticles were generated with a laser, more than 350 institutes all over the world are actively involved in the synthesis and processing of nanoparticles by laser ablation. If 3 students per institute would work in this field we would have a total of 1000 students that are eager to make their way into academia or industry using this laser-based method. Different terminologies such as “pulsed laser ablation/fragmentation/melting in liquids (PLAL/PLFL/PLML)” or “Laser Ablation Synthesis in Solution (LASiS)“ are used to describe the field that this book is about. If you want to know more about LASIK (Laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis or simply laser eye surgery), then you are wrong here and should consider reading another book. But