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 …

Analytical characterization of liposomes and other lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery

Y Fan, M Marioli, K Zhang - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles, especially liposomes and lipid/nucleic acid complexed nanoparticles
have shown great success in the pharmaceutical industry. Their success is attributed to …

Sequential bottom-up assembly of mechanically stabilized synthetic cells by microfluidics

M Weiss, JP Frohnmayer, LT Benk, B Haller… - Nature materials, 2018‏ - nature.com
Compartments for the spatially and temporally controlled assembly of biological processes
are essential towards cellular life. Synthetic mimics of cellular compartments based on lipid …

Microfluidic methods for forming liposomes

D van Swaay, A DeMello - Lab on a Chip, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Liposome structures have a wide range of applications in biology, biochemistry, and
biophysics. As a result, several methods for forming liposomes have been developed. This …

In vivo lipidomics using single-cell Raman spectroscopy

H Wu, JV Volponi, AE Oliver, AN Parikh… - Proceedings of the …, 2011‏ - pnas.org
We describe a method for direct, quantitative, in vivo lipid profiling of oil-producing
microalgae using single-cell laser-trap** Raman spectroscopy. This approach is …

Light at work: The use of optical forces for particle manipulation, sorting, and analysis

A Jonáš, P Zemanek - Electrophoresis, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
We review the combinations of optical micro‐manipulation with other techniques and their
classical and emerging applications to non‐contact optical separation and sorting of micro …

Single-vesicle assays using liposomes and cell-derived vesicles: from modeling complex membrane processes to synthetic biology and biomedical applications

H Pick, AC Alves, H Vogel - Chemical reviews, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
The plasma membrane is of central importance for defining the closed volume of cells in
contradistinction to the extracellular environment. The plasma membrane not only serves as …

Fast characterisation of cell-derived extracellular vesicles by nanoparticles tracking analysis, cryo-electron microscopy, and Raman tweezers microspectroscopy

I Tatischeff, E Larquet, JM Falcón-Pérez… - Journal of …, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
The joint use of 3 complementary techniques, namely, nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA),
cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) and Raman tweezers microspectroscopy (RTM), is …

Cell-sized asymmetric lipid vesicles facilitate the investigation of asymmetric membranes

K Kamiya, R Kawano, T Osaki, K Akiyoshi… - Nature chemistry, 2016‏ - nature.com
Asymmetric lipid giant vesicles have been used to model the biochemical reactions in cell
membranes. However, methods for producing asymmetric giant vesicles lead to the …

Raman tweezers microspectroscopy of circa 100 nm extracellular vesicles

SG Kruglik, F Royo, JM Guigner, L Palomo, O Seksek… - Nanoscale, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The technique of Raman tweezers microspectroscopy (RTM) for the global biomolecular
content characterization of a single extracellular vesicle (EV) or a small number of EVs or …