MACE Conference, June 2009

There will be a postgraduate conference, now this time in School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, commonly known as MACE, The University of Manchester.

My presentation will be at 11:15 in the morning, on Thursday, 11th June, 2009, in room C3, George Begg Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester.

I will cover the area of generation and mechanism of metal-oxide nanoparticles by continuous-wave laser ablation in liquid. This will be my last presentation for MACE, my second registered school for the multi-disciplinary area of generation and characterisation of nanoparticles and lasers.

Conference on Laser Ablation and Nanoparticle Generation in Liquids (ANGEL 2010)

Location: Engelberg, Switzerland

Duration: 29 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

Submission Timeframe: 1 February 2010 - 26 February 2010

Today, nanoparticles are widely implemented as functional elements in plastics, lacquers and ceramic products. Novel applications are targeted on nanomedicine, sensing, electronics, optics and biophotonics.

Nowadays, however, only a limited variety of materials that may be integrated into advanced functional materials are available: Nanoparticles synthesized by conventional gas phase processes are agglomerated to micro powders that are hardly redispersible into functional matrices, and chemical methods often lead to impurities of the nanoparticle colloids caused by additives and precursor reaction products.

In the last decade, laser ablation in liquids has proven to be a unique and efficient technique to generate, fragmentate, re-shape and conjugate nanoparticles. This exciting method bears strong advantages:

• Laser-generated (metal) nanoparticles are charged and thus have an extremely high stability
• Nanoparticle colloids are not inhalable and thus lead to an improved occupational safety
• Chemical precursors are not required and thus the colloids are 100 percent pure
• This method can be applied universally with an almost unlimited variety of materials and solvents

Aspects of the fundamental physics of laser ablation in liquids as well as novel applications, such as the fabrication of core-shell particles, nano-alloys or laser ablation of nanoparticles in biological surroundings will be addressed in this conference. Moreover, the processes of laser nanoparticle interaction within liquid environments provide a large spectrum of applications, especially in biophotonics.

The latest findings on appropriate focusing conditions, cross-effects with particle-laser interaction, flow conditions, kinetics etc. will be discussed on an international level with enough time for discussions and an informal exchange of ideas.

http://www.myeos.org/angel2010

Industrial opportunities in laser micro and nano processing

A workshop on laser application in the area of Micro and Nano processing, organised by AILU, UK. I will be given the presentation titled as 'CW fibre laser production of nano-particles', on behave of my research group and North West Laser Engineering Consortium (NWLEC).

Dates: 4 June (AILU Workshop), 5 June (NWLEC Workshop), 2008
Location: Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus, Warrington, Cheshire, UK.

More about the workshop:
In this annual workshop, industrial users of laser processing technology, suppliers of laser-based equipment and researchers in new laser technology come together to present their applications. This year’s workshop is run in collaboration with NWLEC, a Northwest Science Fund project managed by the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester. A second day (5 June) meeting run by NWLEC and NWPA will concentrate more on research activities; both events benefiting by the proximity and enhancing the networking opportunities that each will provide.

http://www.ailu.org.uk/laser_technology/events/2008-06-04/event_080604.html