Assessment of laser-synthesized Si nanoparticle effects on myoblast motility, proliferation and differentiation: towards potential tissue engineering applications.

Due to their biocompatibility and biodegradability and their unique structural and physicochemical properties, laser-synthesized silicon nanoparticles (Si-NPs) are one of the nanomaterials which have been most studied as potential theragnostic tools for non-invasive therapeutic modalities. However, their ability to modulate cell behavior and to promote proliferation and differentiation is still very little investigated or unknown. In this work, ultrapure ligand free Si-NPs of 50 ± 11.

Generating liquid nanojets from copper by dual laser irradiation for ultra-high resolution printing.

When the energy of a short laser pulse is localized in a fluid material, a flow motion is induced that can lead to the generation of free-surface jets. This nozzle-free jetting process is exploited to print conductive materials, typically metal nanoparticle inks, but this approach remains limited to the transfer of low viscosity fluids with a minimum feature size of few micrometers. We introduce a dual-laser method to achieve reproducible high-aspect-ratio jets from thin solid films.

High-speed multi-jets printing using laser forward transfer: time-resolved study of the ejection dynamics.

This paper extends the current understanding of the laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) process to the multi-jets ejection problem. LIFT has already been used to print micrometer-sized droplets from a liquid donor substrate with single pulse experiments. Here we study the dynamics of the high-speed multi-jets formation from silver nanoparticles ink films with a time-resolved imaging technique.

Pulsed-laser printing of silver nanoparticles ink: control of morphological properties.

Fine electrically-conductive patterns of silver nanoparticles ink have been laser printed using the laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) technique. LIFT is a technique that offers the possibility of printing patterns with high spatial resolution from a wide range of materials in solid or liquid state. Influence of drying the ink film, previous to its transfer, on the printed droplet morphology is discussed.