Laser-Assisted Nanofabrication of Carbon Nanostructures

Unique features of lasers, such as spatial and temporal coherence, low divergence, high power density and monochromaticity, endorse a broad spectrum of applications in fabricating nanostructured materials. Based on laser-material interactions, such as localized heating, optical near–field effect, ablation, and resonant excitation, a number of laser–assisted techniques, laser exfoliation, laser direct writing, laser–assisted chemical vapor deposition, and laser–assisted combustion synthesis, were developed in our group for fabricating carbon nanostructures of different dimensionalities, including two–dimensional graphene, one dimensional carbon nanotubes, and zero–dimensional carbon nanoonions.