Home

Recent developments in Gas Phase Synthesis of Nanoparticles and applications

Chair: Dr. Yves Huttel, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Co-chair: Prof. Sergio D'ADDATO, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Gas phase synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) is attracting considerable attention in the scientific community due to its own characteristics that make it particularly well suited for fundamental studies. Since its early developments in the 1990´s when this bottom-up synthesis method was used to generate beams of clusters in vacuum and ultra-high vacuum, this technology and its variants have been used for the generation of bigger nanoparticles. The nanoparticles sources also known as Ion Cluster Sources or Gas Aggregation Sources (GAS) are being used by an increasing number of research groups and also in some limited industrial applications. The GAS represent an interesting alternative to the chemical methods where a “fine tuning” of the NP properties is required. Physical synthesis can be single-step and ligand-free, and these characteristics can result in a more accurate analysis of the NP structure and of their electronic, optical and magnetic behavior.

 
This standalone online event is part of the CMD29 online series and will focus on the Growth/Fabrication, Theoretical aspects, Characterization and applications of NPs obtained using physical synthesis techniques, like for instance gas-phase synthesis, physical vapour deposition, pulsed laser ablation and others.