General Bottom‐Up Construction of Spherical Particles by Pulsed Laser Irradiation of Colloidal Nanoparticles: A Case Study on CuO
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The development of a general method to fabricate spherical semiconductor and metal particles advances their promising electrical, optical, magnetic, plasmonic, thermoelectric, and optoelectric applications. Herein, by using CuO as an example, we systematically demonstrate a general bottom‐up laser processing technique for the synthesis of submicrometer semiconductor and metal colloidal spheres, in which the unique selective pulsed heating assures the formation of spherical particles. Importantly, we can easily control the size and phase of resultant colloidal spheres by simply tuning the input laser fluence. The heating–melting–fusion mechanism is proposed to be responsible for the size evolution of the spherical particles. We have systematically investigated the influence of experimental parameters, including laser fluence, laser wavelength, laser irradiation time, dispersing liquid, and starting material concentration on the formation of colloidal spheres. We believe that this facile laser irradiation approach represents a major step not only for the fabrication of colloidal spheres but also in the practical application of laser processing for micro‐ and nanomaterial synthesis.
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Heating, melting, and fusion seemed to be responsible for the formation of spherical metal-oxide particles.
“Heating, melting, and fusion seemed to be responsible for the formation of the resultant spherical metal-oxide particles.”
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- Authors
- Wang, H., Kawaguchi, K., Pyatenko, A., Li, X., Swiatkowska‐Warkocka, Z., Katou, Y., & Koshizaki, N.
- Affiliations
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Hongqiang
- Koshizaki, Naoto
- Venue
- Chemistry – A European Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-12-02
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 163-169
- ISSN
- 0947-6539 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-3765
- OpenAlex
- W2034679405
- Cited by
- 60
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- FWCI
- 1.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Chemistry - A European Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Nanoparticles
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
- Keywords
- colloidal spheres, pulsed laser irradiation, copper oxide nanoparticles, bottom-up synthesis, selective heating, particle size control, phase control, submicron particles
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