Participant Support for 7th International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL); Charlottesville, Virginia; 26-31 May 2024

该奖项为第七届液体激光产生和激发先进纳米粒子国际会议(安吉尔)的与会者提供支持，该会议于2024年5月26日至31日在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔举行。会议的重点是基于激光的纳米颗粒合成在清洁能源、医药和先进制造中的应用方面的新研究和开发活动。来自工业界的学生、教师和研究人员在口头和海报会议上介绍了他们关于基于激光合成纳米颗粒的最新研究成果。这次会议影响了先进制造业和更广泛的工程界。优先考虑学生和年轻教员参与者，特别是女性参与者和那些在科学和工程领域代表性不足的少数群体。这一方法在短期内促进了会议的多样化参与，在长期内促进了STEM领域的多样化参与。这一奖项通过教育熟练和多样化的制造业劳动力使国家受益，他们更好地准备好为他们选择的领域的挑战提供变革性的解决方案。这次会议在支持和支持纳米颗粒和纳米材料这一重要领域发挥了重要作用，纳米颗粒和纳米材料是能源、医学、微电子学和量子研究的重要组成部分。由于全球对高质量、可调纳米材料和纳米粒子的需求增加，这次会议恰逢其时，与会者的支持预计将有利于学生的专业、科学和技术发展。参加会议的学生和教师对纳米粒子合成、其基本原理、先进制造、先进表征和应用有了更广泛的看法。这次会议由美国和国际专家和研究人员参加，因此提出并讨论了各种观点。这次会议为与会者提供了一个机会，展示他们的科学成就，与学术界、政府实验室和行业的同行和同事互动，并扩大他们在广泛的材料加工和先进制造业社区中的网络。与会者通过几位国内和国际主要演讲者的技术和专业发展讲座，了解了激光合成和加工胶体纳米颗粒的最新研究，激光-纳米颗粒相互作用的生物医学应用，在空间和时间分辨率限制下的激光-纳米颗粒相互作用的高级建模和实验探测，以及激光-材料在液体中相互作用的一般领域的其他新兴课题。学生和年轻教师通过口头和海报演示以及与技术领域同行深入讨论他们的工作来提高他们的沟通技能。这种互动体验极大地拓宽了学生教育，提高了他们对研究主题的热情，让他们熟悉了对科学职业的期望，并使他们接触到创新研究的新方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides participant support for attendees of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL); Charlottesville, Virginia; 26-31 May 2024. The conference focuses on new research and development activities in laser-based nanoparticle synthesis for applications in clean energy, medicine, and advanced manufacturing. Students, faculty, and researchers from industry present their latest research results on laser-based synthesis of nanoparticles in oral and poster sessions. The conference impacts the advanced manufacturing and broader engineering communities. Priority is given to student and young faculty participants, particularly female participants and those who belong to minority groups underrepresented in science and engineering. This approach promotes diverse participation at the conference, in the short term, and in STEM fields, in the long term. This award benefits the nation through the education of a skilled and diverse manufacturing workforce, which is better prepared to provide transformative solutions to the challenges in their chosen fields. The conference plays an important role in supporting and sustaining the important field of nanoparticles and nanomaterials, which are important components in energy, medicine, microelectronics, and quantum research. This conference is timely because of the increase in global demand for high quality, tunable nanomaterials, and nanoparticles.This participant support is expected to benefit the students' professional, scientific, and technical development. Attendance at the conference gives the students and faculty a broader view of nanoparticle synthesis, its fundamentals, advanced manufacturing, advanced characterization, and applications. The conference is attended by U.S. and international experts and researchers, thus a variety of perspectives are presented and discussed. The conference is an opportunity for participants to showcase their scientific accomplishments, interact with peers and colleagues in academia, government laboratories and industry, and extend their network within the broad materials processing and advanced manufacturing communities. Attendees learn about state-of-the-art research in laser synthesis and processing of colloidal nanoparticles, biomedical applications of laser-nanoparticle interactions, advanced modeling and experimental probing of laser-nanoparticle interactions at the limits of spatial and time resolution, and other emerging topics in the general area of laser-materials interactions in liquids via access to several technical and professional development talks by leading domestic and international speakers. Students and young faculty enhance their communication skills through oral and poster presentations and in-depth discussions of their work with peers in their technical areas. This interactive experience significantly broadens student education, increases their enthusiasm for their research topic, acquaints them with expectations for scientific careers, and exposes them to new approaches for innovative research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.