Photothermal nanomaterials: a powerful light-to-heat converter

X Cui, Q Ruan, X Zhuo, X **
Q Jiang, B Rogez, JB Claude, G Baffou, J Wenger - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanotweezers use intense electric field gradients to generate optical forces able
to trap nano-objects in liquids. However, part of the incident light is absorbed into the metal …

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 …

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 …

All optical dynamic nanomanipulation with active colloidal tweezers

S Ghosh, A Ghosh - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Manipulation of colloidal objects with light is important in diverse fields. While performance
of traditional optical tweezers is restricted by the diffraction-limit, recent approaches based …

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 …

Optical nanoprinting of colloidal particles and functional structures

J Li, EH Hill, L Lin, Y Zheng - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in chemical sciences have enabled the tailorable synthesis of colloidal
particles with variable composition, size, shape, and properties. Building superstructures …