Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

The optical manipulation of tiny objects is significant to understand and to explore the
unknown in the microworld, which has found many applications in materials science and life …

Sub-micrometer particles (0.10–1.0 μm) are of great significance to study, eg, microvesicles
and protein aggregates are targets for therapeutic intervention, and sub-micrometer …

Optical tweezers have had a major impact on bioscience research by enabling the study of
biological particles with high accuracy. The focus so far has been on trap** individual …

Using light to manipulate fluids has been a long-sought-after goal for lab-on-a-chip
applications to address the size mismatch between bulky external fluid controllers and …

Plasmonic tweezers are an emerging research topic because of their breakthrough in the
conventional diffraction limit and precise manipulation at the nanoscale. Notably, their …

Optical tweezers have profound importance across fields ranging from manufacturing to
biotechnology. However, the requirement of refractive index contrast and high laser power …