Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale

P Hänggi, F Marchesoni - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
In systems possessing spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking, Brownian motion combined
with unbiased external input signals, deterministic and random alike, can assist directed …

Optical tweezers for single cells

H Zhang, KK Liu - Journal of the Royal Society interface, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Optical tweezers (OT) have emerged as an essential tool for manipulating single biological
cells and performing sophisticated biophysical/biomechanical characterizations. Distinct …

Trap** red blood cells in living animals using optical tweezers

MC Zhong, XB Wei, JH Zhou, ZQ Wang… - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
The recent development of non-invasive imaging techniques has enabled the visualization
of molecular events underlying cellular processes in live cells. Although microscopic objects …

Enhanced cell sorting and manipulation with combined optical tweezer and microfluidic chip technologies

X Wang, S Chen, M Kong, Z Wang, KD Costa, RA Li… - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Sorting (or isolation) and manipulation of rare cells with high recovery rate and purity are of
critical importance to a wide range of physiological applications. In the current paper, we …

Experimental demonstration of optical transport, sorting and self-arrangement using a 'tractor beam'

O Brzobohatý, V Karásek, M Šiler, L Chvátal… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Following the Keplerian idea of optical forces, one would intuitively expect that an object
illuminated by sunlight radiation or a laser beam will be accelerated along the direction of …

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 …

Optical trap** in vivo: theory, practice, and applications

IA Favre-Bulle, AB Stilgoe, EK Scott… - …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Since the time of their introduction, optical tweezers (OTs) have grown to be a powerful tool
in the hands of biologists. OTs use highly focused laser light to guide, manipulate, or sort …

Perspective on light-induced transport of particles: from optical forces to phoretic motion

P Zemánek, G Volpe, A Jonáš… - Advances in Optics and …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Propulsive effects of light, which often remain unnoticed in our daily-life experience, manifest
themselves on spatial scales ranging from subatomic to astronomical. Light-mediated forces …

Development overview of Raman-activated cell sorting devoted to bacterial detection at single-cell level

S Yan, J Qiu, L Guo, D Li, D Xu, Q Liu - Applied Microbiology and …, 2021 - Springer
Understanding the metabolic interactions between bacteria in natural habitat at the single-
cell level and the contribution of individual cell to their functions is essential for exploring the …

Light forces the pace: optical manipulation for biophotonics

DJ Stevenson, F Gunn-Moore… - Journal of biomedical …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The biomedical sciences have benefited immensely from photonics technologies in the last
50 years. This includes the application of minute forces that enable the trap** and …