Twisted moiré photonic crystal enabled optical vortex generation through bound states in the continuum by Tiancheng Zhang, Kaichen Dong, Jiachen Li, Fanhao Meng, Jingang Li, Sai Munagavalasa, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, Junqiao Wu, Jie Yao

“…As a result, TBPCs not only provide a new approach to manipulating the angular momentum of photons, but may also enable novel applications in integrated optical information processing and optical tweezers. Our work broadens the field of moiré photonics and paves the way toward the novel application of moiré physics.…”
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Collective synchronization states in arrays of driven colloidal oscillators by Romain Lhermerout, Nicolas Bruot, Giovanni M Cicuta, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta

“…Driving colloidal particles with optical tweezers, we then experimentally investigate the coupling through hydrodynamics in systems of many oscillators, showing that a collective dynamics emerges. …”
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Creating tunable lateral optical forces through multipolar interplay in single nanowires by Fan Nan, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Shaohui Yan, Jack J. Kingsley-Smith, Jack Ng, Baoli Yao, Zijie Yan, Xiaohao Xu

“…Direct experimental evidence of switchable LOF is captured by polarization-angle-controlled manipulation of single Ag nanowires using holographic optical tweezers. This work provides a minimalist paradigm to achieve interface-free LOF for optomechanical applications, such as optical sorting and light-driven micro/nanomotors.…”
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Red blood cell trapping using single-beam acoustic tweezers in the Rayleigh regime by Jinhee Yoo, Jinhyuk Kim, Jungwoo Lee, Hyung Ham Kim

“…Summary: Acoustic tweezers (ATs) are a promising technology that can trap and manipulate microparticles or cells with the focused ultrasound beam without physical contact. Unlike optical tweezers, ATs may be used for in vivo studies because they can manipulate cells through tissues. …”
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Optomechanical control of stacking patterns of h-BN bilayer by Xu, Haowei, Zhou, Jian, Li, Yifei, Jaramillo, Rafael, Li, Ju

“…Few-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials usually have different (meta)-stable stacking patterns, which have distinct electronic and optical properties. Inspired by optical tweezers, we show that a laser with selected frequency can modify the generalized stacking-fault energy landscape of bilayer hexagonal boron nitride (BBN), by coupling to the slip-dependent dielectric response. …”
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Optical trapping of dielectric nanoparticles in resonant cavities by Hu, Juejun, Lin, Shiyun, Kimerling, Lionel C., Crozier, Kenneth

“…Strong size-dependent trapping dynamics distinctly different from free-space optical tweezers arise as a consequence of the finite cavity perturbation. …”
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Plasmonic optical trap having very large active volume realized with nano-ring structure by Kang, Zhiwen, Zhang, Haixi, Lu, Haifei, Xu, Jianbin, Ong, Hock-Chun, Shum, Perry Ping, Ho, Ho-Pui

“…The feasibility of using gold nano-rings as plasmonic nano-optical tweezers is investigated. We found that at a resonant wavelength of λ=785  nm , the nano-ring produces a maximum trapping potential of ∼32k B T on gold nanoparticles. …”
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Generation of terahertz vector beam bearing tailored topological charge by Sen Mou, Annalisa D’Arco, Luca Tomarchio, Salvatore Macis, Alessandro Curcio, Stefano Lupi, Massimo Petrarca

“…Optical vector beams have great potential in many applications, for example optical tweezers, information transmission and processing, laser surface structuring, particle acceleration, and vortex dichroism spectroscopy. …”
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Gap Effect on Electric Field Enhancement and Photothermal Conversion in Gold Nanostructures by Hirotomo Chiba, Kento Kodama, Koki Okada, Yoshiyasu Ichikawa, Masahiro Motosuke

“…Plasmonic optical tweezers and thermophoresis are promising tools for nanomaterial manipulation. …”
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A mechanistic model of cross-bridge migration in RBC aggregation and disaggregation by Swe Soe Maung Ye, Sangho Kim

“…By parametrically transforming the diffusivity of mFg in the CBMM, we were able to match experimental observations of both RBC doublet formation kinematics and RBC doublet disaggregation forces under optical tweezers tension. We found that non-specific cross-bridging promotes spontaneous growth of adhesion area between RBC doublets whereas specific cross-bridging tends to prevent adhesion area growth. …”
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In-vivo programmable acoustic manipulation of genetically engineered bacteria by Ye Yang, Yaozhang Yang, Dingyuan Liu, Yuanyuan Wang, Minqiao Lu, Qi Zhang, Jiqing Huang, Yongchuan Li, Teng Ma, Fei Yan, Hairong Zheng

“…This technology has advantages over optical tweezers for in-vivo cell manipulation due to its high tissue penetrability and strong acoustic radiation force. …”
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Unravelling How Single-Stranded DNA Binding Protein Coordinates DNA Metabolism Using Single-Molecule Approaches by Longfu Xu, Matthew T. J. Halma, Gijs J. L. Wuite

“…In this review, we discuss how single-molecule assays, such as optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers, Förster resonance energy transfer, and their combinations, have advanced our understanding of the binding dynamics of SSBs to ssDNA and their interaction with other proteins partners. …”
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Probing mechanical interaction of immune receptors and cytoskeleton by membrane nanotube extraction by Fabio Manca, Gautier Eich, Omar N’Dao, Lucie Normand, Kheya Sengupta, Laurent Limozin, Pierre-Henri Puech

“…To probe this link, we combine mechanical extraction of membrane tubes from T cells using optical tweezers, and fitting of the resulting force curves with a viscoelastic model taking into account the cell and relevant molecules. …”
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Hypothermal opto-thermophoretic tweezers by Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara, Xiuying Li, Jingang Li, Zhihan Chen, Hongru Ding, Youngsun Kim, Suichu Huang, Zhenpeng Qin, Yuebing Zheng

“…Abstract Optical tweezers have profound importance across fields ranging from manufacturing to biotechnology. …”
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Abruptly autofocusing polycyclic tornado ring Airy beam by You Wu, Chuangjie Xu, Zejia Lin, Huixin Qiu, Xinming Fu, Kaihui Chen, Dongmei Deng

“…We believe our results have potential applications in laser energy focusing, optical tweezers, optical spanners and manufacturing tunable chiral meta-materials.…”
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Azimuthally and radially polarized orbital angular momentum modes in valley topological photonic crystal fiber by Zhang Zhishen, Lu Jiuyang, Liu Tao, Gan Jiulin, Heng Xiaobo, Wu Minbo, Li Feng, Yang Zhongmin

“…Artificially tailoring the polarization and phase of light offers new applications in optical communication, optical tweezers, and laser processing. Valley topological physics provides a novel paradigm for controlling electromagnetic waves and encoding information. …”
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Single-molecule observation of DNA compaction by meiotic protein SYCP3 by Johanna L Syrjänen, Iddo Heller, Andrea Candelli, Owen R Davies, Erwin J G Peterman, Gijs J L Wuite, Luca Pellegrini

“…Here, we describe a single-molecule assay based on optical tweezers, fluorescence microscopy and microfluidics that, in combination with bulk biochemical data, provides direct visual evidence for our proposed mechanism of SYCP3-mediated chromosome organisation.…”
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Atom-by-atom assembly of defect-free one-dimensional cold atom arrays by Endres, Manuel, Bernien, Hannes, Keesling, Alexander, Levine, Harry, Anschuetz, Eric R., Krajenbrink, Alexandre, Senko, Crystal, Greiner, Markus, Lukin, Mikhail D., Vuletic, Vladan

“…The technique is based on fast, real-time control of 100 optical tweezers, which we use to arrange atoms in desired geometric patterns and to maintain these configurations by replacing lost atoms with surplus atoms from a reservoir. …”
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Anisotropic mechanics and dynamics of a living mammalian cytoplasm by Gupta, Satish Kumar, Li, Yiwei, Guo, Ming

“…We change the aspect ratio of cells by confining the cell width and measuring the mechanical properties of the cytoplasm using optical tweezers in both the longitudinal and transverse directions to quantify the degree of mechanical anisotropy. …”
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Opto-Mechanics Driven Fast Martensitic Transition in Two-Dimensional Materials by Zhou, Jian, Xu, Haowei, Li, Yifei, Jaramillo, Rafael, Li, Ju

“…But the continuous pursuit of readout/write speed and reduced energy consumption in miniaturized devices calls for an optically driven, diffusionless phase change scheme in ultrathin materials. Inspired by optical tweezers, in this work, we illustrate theoretically and computationally that a linearly polarized laser pulse with selected frequency can drive an ultrafast diffusionless martensitic phase transition of two-dimensional ferroelastic materials such as SnO and SnSe monolayers, where the unit-cell strain is tweezed as a generalized coordinate that affects the anisotropic dielectric function and electromagnetic energy density. …”
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