Acoustic tweezers for the life sciences

A Ozcelik, J Rufo, F Guo, Y Gu, P Li, J Lata, TJ Huang - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers are a versatile set of tools that use sound waves to manipulate
bioparticles ranging from nanometer-sized extracellular vesicles to millimeter-sized …

Heat-mediated optical manipulation

Z Chen, J Li, Y Zheng - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Biomedical applications of microfluidic devices: a review

G Gharib, İ Bütün, Z Muganlı, G Kozalak, İ Namlı… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both passive and active microfluidic chips are used in many biomedical and chemical
applications to support fluid mixing, particle manipulations, and signal detection. Passive …

Opto-thermoelectric nanotweezers

L Lin, M Wang, X Peng, EN Lissek, Z Mao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Optical manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles provides opportunities for fundamental and
technical innovation in nanophotonics. Optical heating arising from the photon-to-phonon …

Opto-thermophoretic manipulation

S Liu, L Lin, HB Sun - Acs Nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
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 …

Highly‐Adaptable Optothermal Nanotweezers for Trap**, Sorting, and Assembling across Diverse Nanoparticles

J Chen, J Zhou, Y Peng, X Dai, Y Tan… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Optical manipulation of various kinds of nanoparticles is vital in biomedical engineering.
However, classical optical approaches demand higher laser power and are constrained by …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidic platforms for the manipulation of cells and particles

H Afsaneh, R Mohammadi - Talanta Open, 2022 - Elsevier
The vast majority of researches in cell biology, biomedicine, biotechnology, and chemistry
require cell/particle separation from a pool of samples for disease diagnostics and clinical …

Microfluidic systems for particle capture and release: A review

L Gong, A Cretella, Y Lin - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Microfluidic technology has emerged as a promising tool in various applications, including
biosensing, disease diagnosis, and environmental monitoring. One of the notable features of …

Low-temperature optothermal nanotweezers

J Zhou, X Dai, Y Peng, Y Zhong, HP Ho, Y Shao… - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
Optical tweezers that rely on laser irradiation to capture and manipulate nanoparticles have
provided powerful tools for biological and biochemistry studies. However, the existence of …

Thermal optofluidics: principles and applications

J Chen, JFC Loo, D Wang, Y Zhang… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal optofluidics is an emerging field that promises to create numerous research and
application opportunities in biophysics, biochemistry, and clinical biology. Innovation in …