Handbook of Laser Synthesis and Processing 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 (LAL/LFL/LML)” 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 if you want to know more about the practical aspects of the exciting field, which we call overall “laser synthesis and processing of colloids (LSPC)” then you are at the right address.