Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers
Recent advances in opto-thermophoretic tweezers open new avenues for low-power trapping and manipulation of nanoparticles with potential applications in colloidal assembly, nanomanufacturing, life sciences, and nanomedicine. However, to fully exploit the opto-thermophoretic tweezers for widespread a...
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| description | Recent advances in opto-thermophoretic tweezers open new avenues for low-power trapping and manipulation of nanoparticles with potential applications in colloidal assembly, nanomanufacturing, life sciences, and nanomedicine. However, to fully exploit the opto-thermophoretic tweezers for widespread applications, the enhancement of their versatility in nanoparticle manipulations is pivotal. For this purpose, we translate our newly developed opto-thermophoretic tweezers onto an optical fiber platform known as opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers (OTFT). We have demonstrated the applications of OTFT as a nanoparticle concentrator, as a nanopipette for single particle delivery, and as a nanoprobe. The simple setup and functional versatility of OTFT would encourage its use in various fields such as additive manufacturing, single nanoparticle-cell interactions, and biosensing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-db9c8e9cef9a41eba9de6db1314d8f982022-12-21T23:08:27ZengDe GruyterNanophotonics2192-86142019-02-018347548510.1515/nanoph-2018-0226nanoph-2018-0226Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezersKotnala Abhay0Zheng Yuebing1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USARecent advances in opto-thermophoretic tweezers open new avenues for low-power trapping and manipulation of nanoparticles with potential applications in colloidal assembly, nanomanufacturing, life sciences, and nanomedicine. However, to fully exploit the opto-thermophoretic tweezers for widespread applications, the enhancement of their versatility in nanoparticle manipulations is pivotal. For this purpose, we translate our newly developed opto-thermophoretic tweezers onto an optical fiber platform known as opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers (OTFT). We have demonstrated the applications of OTFT as a nanoparticle concentrator, as a nanopipette for single particle delivery, and as a nanoprobe. The simple setup and functional versatility of OTFT would encourage its use in various fields such as additive manufacturing, single nanoparticle-cell interactions, and biosensing.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/nanoph.2019.8.issue-3/nanoph-2018-0226/nanoph-2018-0226.xml?format=INTthermophoresisoptical tweezersnanoparticle trapping |
| spellingShingle | Kotnala Abhay Zheng Yuebing Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers Nanophotonics thermophoresis optical tweezers nanoparticle trapping |
| title | Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers |
| title_full | Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers |
| title_fullStr | Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers |
| title_short | Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers |
| title_sort | opto thermophoretic fiber tweezers |
| topic | thermophoresis optical tweezers nanoparticle trapping |
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