X-ray laser

Optics

Physics

Laser ablation synthesis in solution

Nanomaterials

Nanoparticle

Nanotechnology

Nanostructure

Materials science

Laser power scaling

Laser ablation

Computer science

Scalability

Laser

Genetics

Biomedicine

Database

Biology

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.

Nanoparticles Engineering by Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquids: Concepts and Applications