Surface tension-mediated trapping and propulsion of small objects at liquid interfaces by using line-spot lasers

Continuous Particle Trapping, Switching, and Sorting Utilizing a Combination of Dielectrophoresis and Alternating Current Electrothermal Flow

(2019) Haizhen Sun et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Dual-laser-actuated operation of small size objects at a liquid interface

(2019) Xinbin Zhang et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Engineering and Modeling the Electrophoretic Trapping of a Single Protein Inside a Nanopore

(2019) Kherim Willems et al.   ACS Nano

Opto-thermal oscillation and trapping of light absorbing particles

(2019) Min-Cheng Zhong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Orientation of swimming cells with annular beam optical tweezers

(2019) Isaac C.D. Lenton et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

The alignment of thermally conducting nanotubes making high-performance light-driving motors

(2018) Meng Liao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Emergence of Pendular and Rotary Motions of a Centimeter-Sized Metallic Sheet under Stationary Photoirradiation

(2018) Yugo Harada et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Low-Power Optical Trapping of Nanoparticles and Proteins with Resonant Coaxial Nanoaperture Using 10 nm Gap

(2018) Daehan Yoo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Hybrid optofluidics and three-dimensional manipulation based on hybrid photothermal waveguides

(2018) Jiapeng Zheng et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Design, Implementation, and Analysis of a 3-D Magnetic Tweezer System With High Magnetic Field Gradient

(2018) Xiao Zhang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT

Holographic acoustic tweezers

(2018) Asier Marzo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oscillations of absorbing particles at the water-air interface induced by laser tweezers

(2017) Min-Cheng Zhong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Light-Mediated Manufacture and Manipulation of Actuators

(2016) Dong-Dong Han et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Motion of Optically Heated Spheres at the Water–Air Interface

(2016) A. Girot et al.   LANGMUIR

Using magnets and magnetic beads to dissect signaling pathways activated by mechanical tension applied to cells

(2016) R.J. Marjoram et al.   METHODS

Optically trapping tumor cells to assess differentiation and prognosis of cancers

(2016) M. Pradhan et al.   Biomedical Optics Express

Thermal gradient induced tweezers for the manipulation of particles and cells

(2016) Jiajie Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Cheerios Effect Controlled by Electrowetting

(2015) Junqi Yuan et al.   LANGMUIR

In Vivo Quantification of Peroxisome Tethering to Chloroplasts in Tobacco Epidermal Cells Using Optical Tweezers

(2015) Hongbo Gao et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Micromotors with asymmetric shape that efficiently convert light into work by thermocapillary effects

(2015) Claudio Maggi et al.   Nature Communications

Surface Tension Gradient around an Alcohol Droplet Moving Spontaneously on a Water Surface

(2014) Shogo OSHIMA et al.   ANALYTICAL SCIENCES

Magnetic Tweezers-Based 3D Microchannel Electroporation for High-Throughput Gene Transfection in Living Cells

(2014) Lingqian Chang et al.   Small

Sound-Controlled Rotary Driving of a Single Nanowire

(2013) Ning Li et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY

Chemical Propulsion Using Ionic Liquids

(2013) Shigeki Tsuchitani et al.   LANGMUIR

pH-Responsive On-Off Motion of a Superhydrophobic Boat: Towards the Design of a Minirobot

(2013) Meng Xiao et al.   Small

Laser-Driven Accelerated Growth of Dendritic Patterns in Liquids

(2012) Himanish Basu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Optical trapping in an absorbing medium: from optical tweezing to thermal tweezing

(2012) Poonam Kumari et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Vapour-driven Marangoni propulsion: continuous, prolonged and tunable motion

(2012) Hua Jin et al.   Chemical Science

Photothermal trapping of dielectric particles by optical fiber-ring

(2011) Hongbao Xin et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Surface Tension Mediated Conversion of Light to Work

(2009) David Okawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Optical tweezers for single cells

(2008) H. Zhang et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface