The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting-diode (LED) technology has been the revolution in
modern lighting. In the last decade, a huge global market of efficient, long-lasting, and …

Droplet based microfluidics is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research combining
soft matter physics, biochemistry and microsystems engineering. Its applications range from …

Miniaturized droplets, characterized by well‐controlled microenvironments and capability for
parallel processing, have significantly advanced the studies on enzymatic evolution …

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 …

Field‐controlled micro–nano manipulations and micro–nano robots have attracted
increasing attention in the fields of medicine, environment, engineering, and energy due to …

Negative selection-based circulating tumor cell (CTC) isolation is believed valuable to
harvest more native, and in particular all possible CTCs without biases relevant to the …

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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 …

The synthesis of nanowires has advanced in the past decade to the point where a vast
range of insulating, semiconducting and metallic materials are available for use in …