A molecular brake, not a clutch, stops the Rhodobacter sphaeroides flagellar motor. by Pilizota, T, Brown, M, Leake, M, Branch, R, Berry, R, Armitage, J

“…By applying external force with viscous flow or optical tweezers, we show that the R. sphaeroides motor is stopped using a brake. …”

Additive nanomanufacturing - A review by Engstrom, D, Porter, B, Pacios, M, Bhaskaran, H

“…In this review, we outline the state-of-the-art within ANM technologies such as electrohydrodynamic jet printing, dip-pen lithography, direct laser writing, and several single particle placement methods such as optical tweezers and electrokinetic nanomanipulation. The ANM technologies are compared in terms of deposition speed, resolution, and material selection and finally the future prospects of ANM are discussed. …”

Additive nanomanufacturing - A review by Engstrom, D, Porter, B, Pacios, M, Bhaskaran, H

“…In this review, we outline the state-of-the-art within ANM technologies such as electrohydrodynamic jet printing, dip-pen lithography, direct laser writing, and several single particle placement methods such as optical tweezers and electrokinetic nanomanipulation. The ANM technologies are compared in terms of deposition speed, resolution, and material selection and finally the future prospects of ANM are discussed. …”

The control of particles in the Stokes limit by Walker, B, ishimoto, K, Gaffney, EA, Moreau, C

“…There are numerous ways to control objects in the Stokes regime, with microscale examples ranging from the use of optical tweezers to the application of external magnetic fields. …”

Blood cleaner on-chip design for artificial human kidney manipulation by Suwanpayak, N., Jalil, Muhammad Arif, Aziz, M. S., Ismail, Fairuz Diyana, Ali, Jalil, Yupapin, P. P.

“…By controlling some suitable parameters, the optical vortices (gradient optical fields/wells) can be generated and used to form the trapping tools in the same way as optical tweezers. In operation, the trapping force is formed by the combination between the gradient field and scattering photons by using the intense optical vortices generated within the PANDA ring resonator. …”

Molecular buffer using a PANDA ring resonator for drug delivery use by Suwanpayak, N., Jalil, Muhammad Arif, Aziz, M. S., Ali, Jalil, Yupapin, P. P.

“…The optical vortices can be generated and controlled to form the trapping tools in the same way as the optical tweezers. In theory, the trapping force is formed by the combination between the gradient field and scattering photons, which is reviewed. …”
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Molecular buffer, storage and delivery using a PANDA ring resonator and an optical router by Jalil, Muhammad Arif, Roslan, Muhammad S., Mohamad, Azam, Suwanpayak, Nathaporn, Raman, K., Teeka, Chat, Ali, Jalil, Yupapin, Preecha P.

“…The optical vortices can be generated and controlled to form the trapping tools in the same way as the optical tweezers. In theory, the trapping force is formed by the combination between the gradient field and scattering photons, which is reviewed. …”

Multitweezers generation using dark soliton pulses and applications by Jukgoljun, B., Pipatsart, S., Jalil, Muhammad Ariff, Yupapin, P. P., Ali, Jalil

“…Results obtained have shown that the dark soliton trains can be generated and configured as the multi-optical tweezers. The advantage is that the generated tweezers are in the form of dynamic tweezers, where they can transmit/transport via the soliton communication link. …”

Nanoscopic volume trapping and transportation using a PANDA ring resonator for drug delivery by Jalil, Muhammad Arif, Tasakorn, Metha, Suwanpayak, Nathaporn, Ali, Jalil, Yupapin, Preecha P.

“…By controlling some suitable parameters, the optical vortices (gradient optical fields/wells) can be generated and used to form the trapping tools in the same way as the optical tweezers. By using the intense optical vortices generated within the PANDA ring resonator, the nanoscopic volumes (drug) can be trapped and moved (transport) dynamically within the wavelength router or network. …”

Optical amplification of tweezers and bright soliton using an interferometer ring resonator system by Alavi, Sayed Ehsan, Amiri, Iraj Sadegh, Ahmad, Harith, Fisal, Norsheila, Mohd. Supa'at, Abu Sahmah

“…Amplification occurs when the soliton propagates along the add/drop multiplexer system. Amplified optical tweezers signals with power of 487 W and FWHM of 6.8 nm are simulated. …”

Scalable trapping of single nanosized extracellular vesicles using plasmonics by Chuchuan Hong, Justus C. Ndukaife

“…However, trapping these nano-sized EVs using optical tweezers has been challenging due to their small size. …”
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Efficient collisional blockade loading of a single atom into a tight microtrap by Y H Fung, M F Andersen

“…Our results open up an efficient and fast route for loading individual atoms into optical tweezers and arrays of microtraps that are too tight for easy implementation of the method reported in [ 1 , 2 ]. …”
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Efficient Prediction and Analysis of Optical Trapping at Nanoscale via Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting Method by Ting Wan, Benliu Tang

“…Abstract Numerical simulation plays an important role for the prediction of optical trapping based on plasmonic nano-optical tweezers. However, complicated structures and drastic local field enhancement of plasmonic effects bring great challenges to traditional numerical methods. …”
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Optical Trapping, Sensing, and Imaging by Photonic Nanojets by Heng Li, Wanying Song, Yanan Zhao, Qin Cao, Ahao Wen

“…However, because of the diffraction limit of light, traditional optical tweezers and microscopy are difficult to use to trap and observe objects smaller than 200 nm. …”
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Reliable extraction of energy landscape properties from critical force distributions by Sudeep Adhikari, K. S. D. Beach

“…In pulling experiments using optical tweezers, features of the energy landscape can be extracted from the probability distribution of the critical force at which the polymer unfolds. …”
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Counterion crossbridges enable robust multiscale elasticity in actin networks by Bekele Gurmessa, Madison Francis, Michael J. Rust, Moumita Das, Jennifer L. Ross, Rae M. Robertson-Anderson

“…As such, the mechanical properties that counterion crossbridges confer to actin networks needs to be explored. Here, we use optical tweezers microrheology to characterize the mechanical response of actin networks in the presence of varying concentrations of Mg^{2+}. …”
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Optical Trapping of Chiral Particles by Dual Laser Beams by Jing Bai, Cheng-Xian Ge, Zhen-Sen Wu

“…The analytical study on the RF of dual laser beams on chiral particles is an efficient method for improving optical tweezers technology and can become an encouraging approach to realize the high accuracy operation of chiral particles.…”
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Solving optimization problems with local light-shift encoding on Rydberg quantum annealers by Kapil Goswami, Rick Mukherjee, Herwig Ott, Peter Schmelcher

“…Exploiting the flexibility that optical tweezers offer in terms of spatial arrangement, our numerical simulations implement the local-detuning protocol while globally driving the Rydberg annealer to the desired many-body ground state, which is also the solution to the optimization problem. …”
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Energy Transfer between Colloids via Critical Interactions by Ignacio A. Martínez, Clemence Devailly, Artyom Petrosyan, Sergio Ciliberto

“…The two beads are trapped by two optical tweezers whose distance is periodically modulated. …”
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Development of a heating stage for an optical trapping microscope by Wang, Lynn (Lynn H.)

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