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Laser pyrolysis in papers and patents

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  • Christian Spreafico

    (University of Bergamo)

  • Davide Russo

    (University of Bergamo)

  • Riccardo Degl’Innocenti

    (Lancaster University)

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This paper presents a critical review of laser pyrolysis. Although this technology is almost 60 years old, in literature many researchers, both from academia and industry, are still developing and improving it. On the contrary industrial applications are struggling to take off, if not in very restricted areas, although the technology has undoubted advantages that justify future development. The aim of this work consists in analysing a representative pool of scientific papers (230) and patents (121), from the last 20 years, to have an overview about the evolution of the method and try to understand the efforts spent to improve this technology effectively in academia and in industry. This study is important to provide a complete review about the argument, still missing in the literature. The objective is to provide an overview sufficiently broad and representative in the sources and to capture all the main ways in which laser pyrolysis has been used and with what distribution. The main focuses of the study are the analyses of the functions carried out by laser technologies, the application fields, and the types of used laser (i.e. models, power and fluence). Among the main results, the study showed that the main use of laser pyrolysis is to produce nanoparticles and coatings, the main materials worked by laser pyrolysis are silicon and carbon dioxide and the main searched properties in the products of laser pyrolysis are catalysts activity and electrical conductivity. CO2 lasers are the most used and the have high versatility compared to others. In conclusion, the study showed that laser pyrolysis is a consolidated technology within its main application fields (nanoparticles and coatings) for several years. Within this context, the technology has been developed on very different sizes and processes, obtaining a very wide range of results. Finally, these results may also have stimulated new areas of experimentation that emerged mainly in recent years and which concern biomedical applications, additive manufacturing, and waste disposal. Graphical abstract

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  • Christian Spreafico & Davide Russo & Riccardo Degl’Innocenti, 2022. "Laser pyrolysis in papers and patents," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 33(2), pages 353-385, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joinma:v:33:y:2022:i:2:d:10.1007_s10845-021-01809-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10845-021-01809-9
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    1. Filippo Simoni & Andrea Huxol & Franz-Josef Villmer, 2021. "Improving surface quality in selective laser melting based tool making," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 32(7), pages 1927-1938, October.
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