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 …

Controlled propulsion of artificial magnetic nanostructured propellers

A Ghosh, P Fischer - Nano letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
For biomedical applications, such as targeted drug delivery and microsurgery, it is essential
to develop a system of swimmers that can be propelled wirelessly in fluidic environments …

Microfluidics for chiral separation of biomolecules

L Zhang, QG Tan, JQ Fan, C Sun, YT Luo… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microfluidic techniques including capillary electrophoresis (CE), capillary
electrochromatography (CEC), micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MEKC) …

Optofluidic sorting of material chirality by chiral light

G Tkachenko, E Brasselet - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
The lack of mirror symmetry, chirality, plays a fundamental role in physics, chemistry and life
sciences. The passive separation of entities that only differ by their handedness without …

Mechanical separation of chiral dipoles by chiral light

A Canaguier-Durand, JA Hutchison… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We calculate optical forces and torques exerted on a chiral dipole by chiral light fields and
reveal genuine chiral forces in combining the chiral contents of both light field and dipolar …

Circularly polarized luminescence of rhodamine B in a supramolecular chiral medium formed by a vortex flow.

K Okano, M Taguchi, M Fujiki… - … Chemie (International ed …, 2011 - europepmc.org
Sucked into the vortex: Hydrogels with embedded Rhodamine B dye showed stir-induced
circularly polarized luminescence (CPL; see picture), the sense of which can be controlled …

Vortexes and nanoscale chirality

A D'Urso, R Randazzo, LL Faro, R Purrello - … Chemie International Edition, 2009 - infona.pl
J‐aggregates respond dynamically to vortexes created by stirring. The CD signal inverts with
stirring sense and its intensity increases. Prolonged stirring leads to deposition of chiral …

Quantum formulation for nanoscale optical and material chirality: symmetry issues, space and time parity, and observables

DL Andrews - Journal of Optics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
To properly represent the interplay and coupling of optical and material chirality at the
photon-molecule or photon-nanoparticle level invites a recognition of quantum facets in the …

Separation of microscale chiral objects by shear flow

Marcos, HC Fu, TR Powers, R Stocker - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We show that plane parabolic flow in a microfluidic channel causes nonmotile, helically
shaped bacteria to drift perpendicular to the shear plane. Net drift results from the …

Wireless hollow miniaturized objects for electroassisted chiral resolution

S Grecchi, F Malacarne, R Cirilli, M Dell'Edera… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral resolution plays a crucial role in the field of drug development, especially for a better
understanding of biochemical processes. In such a context, classic separation methods …