Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trap** and beyond

Y Zhang, C Min, X Dou, X Wang, HP Urbach… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact
on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects …

Optoelectronic tweezers: a versatile toolbox for nano-/micro-manipulation

S Zhang, B Xu, M Elsayed, F Nan, W Liang… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Engineering photonic angular momentum with structured light: a review

J Chen, C Wan, Q Zhan - Advanced Photonics, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light with inhomogeneous phase, amplitude, and polarization spatial distributions
that represent an infinite-dimensional space of eigenstates for light as the ideal carrier can …

Optical manipulation from the microscale to the nanoscale: fundamentals, advances and prospects

D Gao, W Ding, M Nieto-Vesperinas, X Ding… - Light: Science & …, 2017 - nature.com
Since the invention of optical tweezers, optical manipulation has advanced significantly in
scientific areas such as atomic physics, optics and biological science. Especially in the past …

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures: recent advances in their synthesis and applications

W Wu, M Pauly - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chirality describes the geometric property of an object that is not superimposable on its
mirror image and has been a pivotal concept in chemistry and biology since the 19th …

Nanophotonic platforms for chiral sensing and separation

ML Solomon, AAE Saleh, LV Poulikakos… - Accounts of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chirality in Nature can be found across all length scales, from the subatomic to
the galactic. At the molecular scale, the spatial dissymmetry in the atomic arrangements of …

Magnesium–air batteries: from principle to application

T Zhang, Z Tao, J Chen - Materials Horizons, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–air batteries are important power sources for electronics and vehicles because of their
remarkable high theoretical energy density and low cost. In this paper, we introduce the …

Phototransformation of achiral metasurfaces into handedness-selectable transient chiral media

AS Kim, A Goswami, M Taghinejad, W Cai - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
Chirality is a geometric property describing the lack of mirror symmetry. This unique feature
enables photonic spin-selectivity in light–matter interaction, which is of great significance in …

Chirality-assisted lateral momentum transfer for bidirectional enantioselective separation

Y Shi, T Zhu, T Zhang, A Mazzulla, DP Tsai… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Lateral optical forces induced by linearly polarized laser beams have been predicted to
deflect dipolar particles with opposite chiralities toward opposite transversal directions …

Harnessing enantioselective optical forces by quasibound states in the continuum

R **, X Zhang, P Huo, Z Cai, Y Lu, T Xu, Y Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Enantioselective optical forces have garnered significant attention, because they provide a
noninvasive means to separate chiral objects. A promising approach to enhance …