Patent ID: 8025837

Claim:
An enclosed system for generating flux specific bursts of nanoparticles from a single microparticle, consisting of: a source of microparticles of nanoparticle material; an enclosure enclosing: a disperser system for dispensing a target stream of the microparticles consisting of at least one nanoparticle material selected from a group consisting of Lithium, Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Astatine, Barium, Bismuth, Cadmium, Calcium, Cerium, Cesium, Copper, Gallium, Germanium, Gold, Indium, Lanthanum, Lead, Magnesium, Plutonium, Potassium, Praseodymium, Radium, Rubidium, Selenium, Silver, Sodium, Strontium, Sulphur, Tellurium, Thallium, Tin, Ytterbium, and Zinc combined with an evaporant including at least one liquid selected from a group consisting of water, alcohol, methane and any liquid with a low boiling point from the source; a pulse laser source having a variable repetition rate to produce an output; a lens coupled with the pulse laser source for focusing the pulse laser source output onto the target stream to heat the target stream of microparticles with the light source to generate flux-specific bursts of nano-droplets of nanoparticles from the heated target stream within the enclosure; an environment within the enclosure for cooling the generated nanoparticles to a temperature below their melting point to convert the nano-droplets to solid nanoparticles, the environment selected from one of a partial vacuum, a gas curtain and a separate gas enclosure; a collector plate for collecting the solid nanoparticles; and a controller for controlling a composition of the bursts of nanoparticles from the heated target stream, the controller varying at least one of a size of the microparticle, a repetition rate of the pulse laser source, the microparticle condition and the environment within the enclosure to control the size and size distribution of the flux of nanoparticles created.