Lasers and Aerosols in Nanomaterials Fabrication. Using laser-solid interactions and aerosol science we have developed new fabrication methods that can be applied to a wide variety of materials systems. Our research is aimed at further developing these general methods and at using them for the synthesis of nanostructured materials with applications in biomedicine and optoelectronics.

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1. M. Bulut, L. Smith, M. Bulut, and R. P. Camata, “Electrostatic Effects in the Gas-Phase Aggregation of Laser-Synthesized Zinc Oxide Nanocrystals ” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, submitted (February 21, 2007).

2. M. Bulut and R. P. Camata, “A Generalized Cell Method for Hard Disk Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Polydisperse Systems,” International Journal of Modern Physics C, in press (Accepted March 19, 2007).

3. M. M. Abbas, D. Tankosic, P. D. Craven, J. F. Spann, A. LeClair, E. A. West, J. C. Weingartner, A. G. G. M. Tielens, J. A. Nuth, R. P. Camata, and P. A. Gerakines, “Photoelectric Emission Measurements on the Analogs of Individual Cosmic Dust Grains”, The Astrophysical Journal, 645, 324–336 (2006).

4. S. Brown, H. Kim, R. P. Camata, “A Hybrid Laser/Aerosol Method for the Synthesis of Porous Nanostructured Calcium Phosphate Materials for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications,” in Nanoscale Materials Science in Biology and Medicine, edited by Cato T. Laurencin and Edward A. Botchwey (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 845, Warrendale, PA , 2005), AA5.35.