This Virtual Special Issue will highlight theoretical and experimental advances in laser processing, focusing on the physical chemistry underlying laser-material/nanoparticle interactions. Submit your manuscript by January 31, 2025.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C will publish a Virtual Special Issue (VSI), Laser-Enabled Synthesis and Processing of Nanoparticles in Liquids. Researchers are encouraged to submit a manuscript describing their new and unpublished work by January 31, 2025.
This VSI is inspired by the debut of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL) in the United States in May 2024. The conference brings together researchers involved in experimental, theoretical, and computational investigations in the area of laser-materials interaction in liquids. The conference provides a forum for sharing the results of both application-oriented work and studies of fundamental mechanisms related to laser synthesis and processing of nanoparticles.
The papers submitted to this VSI should describe theoretical and/or experimental advances in laser processing, focusing on the physical chemistry underlying laser-material/nanoparticle interactions.
Topics of this VSI will primarily include, but are not limited to:
- Defect engineering through highly nonequilibrium synthesis conditions
- Effects of nanoparticle defects, sizes, and ligands on electron-phonon relaxation, optical properties and chemical activity of nanoparticles
- Time-resolved probing of laser-induced transformations (both in laser ablation and in laser-nanoparticle interactions)
- Nanoscale phase separation in multicomponent nanoparticles
Organizing Editors
Prof. Katharine Tibbetts, Guest Editor
Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Prof. Dr. Stephan Barcikowski, Guest Editor
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Dr. Anna Ziefuß, Guest Editor
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Submission Instructions
All submissions to The Journal of Physical Chemistry will be handled by JPC Senior Editors and peer-reviewed with the same standards and expectations applied to all other manuscripts submitted to the journal. To ensure an unbiased peer-review process, the journal asks that you do not indicate within your manuscript that the submission is intended for the VSI. If you do, your manuscript will be returned for correction. Instead, when you submit your manuscript, please state prominently in the cover letter for the submission that the paper is intended for the “Laser-Enabled Synthesis and Processing of Nanoparticles in Liquids” VSI. You can find a complete list of sections and other important information for authors in the The Journal of Physical Chemistry Author Guidelines.
As with all submissions to JPC, your manuscript for the VSI should represent a rigorous scientific report of original research. Manuscripts are expected to provide new physical insight and/or present new theoretical or computational methods of broad interest.
Contributing to this Virtual Special Issue
If you are unsure if your research is within the scope of this VSI or have other questions about submitting a manuscript to the journal please email JPC C Deputy Editor Gregory Hartland’s office at hartland-office@jpc.acs.org.
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