Advances in the Application of Lasers in Materials Science

Paolo M. Ossi is Associate Professor of Physics of Matter at the Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests include modeling the interaction between energetic beams (photons; particles) and solid surfaces, the controlled nanoparticle synthesis (oxides, transition and noble metals) by Pulsed Laser Deposition in dense gases and liquids, the growth and evolution under solar irradiation of snow nanocrystals (natural and artificial). He is author, or co-author of about 200 publications in International journals, numerous invited contributions to international volumes. He is co-editor of five books/proceedings. He authored the books Disordered Materials - An Introduction (Springer, Berlin, 2nd Ed., 2006) and Plasmi per Superfici (Polipress, Milano, 2006). He is holder of two patents and Co-Editor of the Springer Series Topics in Applied Physics. Antonio Miotello is full professor of Experimental Physics at Trento University. His main research interests include microscopic processes involved in growth of thin films by using deposition techniques: Physical Vapor Deposition and Laser-Ablation, synthesis of nanoparticles of composite materials having catalytic properties for hydrolysis of chemical hydrides and development of related reactor chambers, synthesis of photocatalysts for water purification or splitting for hydrogen production with photolectrochemical cells, modeling the growth of nanostructures using Density Functional Theory and Monte Carlo simulation. He is author, or co-author of more than 350 peer reviewed papers published in international journals and holder of two patents.

Laser synthesis, processing, and spectroscopy of atomically-thin two dimensional materials.- The role of defects in pulsed laser matter interaction.- Surface functionalization by laser-induced structuring.- Laser-inducing extreme thermodynamic conditions in condensed matter to produce nanomaterials for catalysis and the photocatalysis.- Insights into laser-materials interaction through modeling on atomic and macroscopic scales.- Ultrafast laser micro and nano processing of transparent materials-from fundamentals to applications.- Molecular orbital tomography based on high-order harmonic generation: principles and perspectives.- Laser ablation propulsion and its applications in space.- Laser structuring of soft materials: laser- induced forward transfer and two-photon polymerization.- UV- and RIR-MAPLE: fundamentals and applications.- Combinatorial laser synthesis of biomaterial thin films: selection and processing for medical applications.- Laser synthesized nanoparticles for therapeutic drug monitoring.- Nonlinear optics in lase ablation plasmas.