Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

The Soret effect describes diffusive motion that originates from a temperature gradient. It is
observed in mixtures of gases, liquids and even solids. Although there is a formal …

A temperature gradient acts like an external field on colloidal suspensions and drives the
solute particles to the cold or to the warm, depending on interfacial and solvent properties …

Thermodiffusion, also called thermal diffusion or the Ludwig–Soret effect, describes the
coupling between a temperature gradient and a resulting mass flux in a multicomponent …

Optical tweezers have profound importance across fields ranging from manufacturing to
biotechnology. However, the requirement of refractive index contrast and high laser power …

With rising popularity of microscale thermophoresis for the characterisation of protein-ligand
binding reactions and possible applications in microfluidic devices, there is a growing …

We use a micrometer-scale optical beam deflection technique to measure the
thermodiffusion coefficient DT at room temperature (≈ 24° C) of dilute aqueous suspensions …

An expression for the single-particle thermal diffusion coefficient of a charged colloidal
sphere is derived on the basis of force balance on the Brownian time scale in combination …

Measurements of particle flows driven by temperature gradients are conducted as a function
of temperature on aqueous suspensions of polystyrene nanoparticles and proteins of T4 …

Thermophoresis moves molecules along temperature gradients, typically from hot to cold.
We superpose fluid flow with thermophoretic molecule flow under well-defined microfluidic …