2025 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Symposium NM07-Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Laser-Induced Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials are revolutionizing science and technology in this century, improving and adding new functionalities in multiple fields, such as sensing, energy storage, electronics, biotechnology, or optics. There are numerous procedures for their fabrication, but successful industrial implementation is always connected to the cost-effective and reproducible production of raw nanomaterials and devices. Recently, Laser-induced micro/nanostructures have been recognized as one of the leading salable nanomanufacturing processes of a wide range of functional materials. Such structures on the surface of different metals, semiconductors, dielectrics, or polymers can generate new material properties with special functionalities. Depending on the specific material parameters and the morphology of the structures, new devices like microlasers, water-repelling surfaces, optical storage devices, biosensors, or antifraud features can be realized.
Furthermore, laser nanotextured surfaces can be used to improve the tribological properties of special tools for the reduction of friction losses or wear, to modify the wettability or the cell and biofilm growth properties of surfaces, or as decoration elements for the refinement of precious goods. This symposium aims at being an international forum for discussion of synthesis, properties, and applications of different Laser-induced micro/nanostructures. It will cover all aspects of fundamental, experimental, and theoretical research related to Laser-induced nanomaterials, including materials discovery and synthesis, characterization of their electrical, electrochemical, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties, and use for different functional devices.

Topics will include:

Laser-induced graphene processing methods
Laser-induced metal oxides processing methods
Atomic structure and surface chemistry of laser treated metals and
Optical and electronic properties of laser-induced periodic surface structures
Electrochemical properties and applications of laser-induced nanomaterials
Catalytic properties and applications of laser-induced nanomaterials
Thermal and thermoelectric properties of laser-induced nanomaterials
Mechanical and tribological properties of laser processed surfaces
Laser surface nanotexturing for biomedical applications
Laser-induced nanomaterials for sensors, actuators, and other devices
Laser-induced thin films, composites, hybrids, and 3D structures and their applications

Invited Speakers:

Husam AlShareef (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Shideh Ameri (Queen's University, USA)
Craig Arnold (Princeton University, USA)
Nadezhda Bulgakova (HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics, Czech Republic)
Doug Chrisey (Tulane University, USA)
Joao Coelho (Universidad de Sevilla, Portugal)
Matthijn Dekkers (Lam Research Corporation, Netherlands)
Ralph Delmdahl (Coherent Corp., Germany)
Aida Ebrahimi (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Wei Gao (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Alejandro Garcia (IREC, Spain)
Carmen Gomes (Iowa State University of Science and Technology, USA)
Richard Kaner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Stephan Keller (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Jürgen Kosel (Austria Labs, Austria)
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio (Yale University, USA)
Keon Jae Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
Jennifer Lewis (Harvard University, USA)
Thorsten Lill (Lam Research Corporation and Clarycon Nanotechnology Research, Inc., USA)
Nanshu Lu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Roya Maboudian (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Ibo Matthews (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
Alexander Molodyk (Faraday Factory, Japan)
Christopher Selley (Precision MicroFab, USA)
Lia Stanciu (Purdue University, USA)
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts (Duke University, USA)
James Tour (Rice University, USA)
Martin Wegener (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Nongnoot Wongkaew (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
Yutaka Yamada (Shangai Superconductor Technology Co., Ltd., Japan)