Impact of Plasmonic Nanoparticles on Poikilocytosis and Microrheological Properties of Erythrocytes by Tatiana Avsievich, Ruixue Zhu, Alexey P. Popov, Alexander Yatskovskiy, Anton A. Popov, Gleb Tikhonowsky, Andrei I. Pastukhov, Sergei Klimentov, Alexander Bykov, Andrei Kabashin, Igor Meglinski

“…This research explored RBC alterations induced by noble (Au and Ag) and nitride-based (TiN and ZrN) laser-synthesized plasmonic NP. Optical tweezers and conventional microscopy modalities indicated the effects arising at non-hemolytic levels, such as RBC poikilocytosis, and alterations in RBC microrheological parameters, elasticity and intercellular interactions. …”
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Wavelength-Tunable Narrow-Linewidth Laser Diode Based on Self-Injection Locking with a High-Q Lithium Niobate Microring Resonator by Ting Huang, Yu Ma, Zhiwei Fang, Junxia Zhou, Yuan Zhou, Zhe Wang, Jian Liu, Zhenhua Wang, Haisu Zhang, Min Wang, Jian Xu, Ya Cheng

“…This work explores a hybrid integrated narrow linewidth 980 nm laser that has potential applications in high-efficient pump laser, optical tweezers, quantum information, as well as chip-based precision spectroscopy and metrology.…”
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Single-molecule mechanical folding and unfolding of RNA hairpins : effects of single A-U to A·C pair substitutions and single proton binding and implications for mRNA structure-ind... by Yang, Lixia, Zhong, Zhensheng, Tong, Cailing, Jia, Huan, Liu, Yiran, Chen, Gang

“…Our results on single-molecule mechanical (un)folding using optical tweezers reveal the destabilization effect of A-U to A·C pair substitution and protonation-dependent enhancement of mechanical stability facilitated through an increased folding rate, or decreased unfolding rate, or both. …”
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Single cell analysis inside Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM)-nanomanipulator system by Ahmad, Mohd. Ridzuan, Nakajima, Masahiro, Kojima, Seiji, Homma, Michio, Fukuda, Toshio

“…Available experimental techniques to probe single cells include micropipette aspiration, optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers (Bausch et al., 1999), atomic/molecular force probes (Gueta et al., 2006), nanoindenters, microplate manipulators, optical stretchers (Thoumine et al., 1999) and nanoneedle (Obataya et al., 2005).. …”

Mechanical properties of F-actin network by Lee, Hyungsuk

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A disease-causing intronic point mutation C19G alters tau exon 10 splicing via RNA secondary structure rearrangement by Tan, Jiazi, Yang, Lixia, Ong, Alan Ann Lerk, Shi, Jiahao, Zhong, Zhensheng, Lye, Mun Leng, Liu, Shiyi, Lisowiec-Wachnicka, Jolanta, Kierzek, Ryszard, Roca, Xavier, Chen, Gang

“…Here, we show by biophysical characterization, including thermal melting, fluorescence, and single-molecule mechanical unfolding using optical tweezers, that the +19G mutation alters the structure of the bottom stem, resulting in the formation of a new bottom stem with enhanced stability. …”
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On-chip photodetection of angular momentums of vortex structured light by Dai, Mingjin, Wang, Chongwu, Sun, Fangyuan, Wang, Qi Jie

“…Structured vortex light with orbital angular momentum (OAM) shows great promise for high-bandwidth optical communications, quantum information and computing, optical tweezers, microscopy, astronomy, among others. …”
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Single-molecule force spectroscopy of protein-membrane interactions by Lu Ma, Yiying Cai, Yanghui Li, Junyi Jiao, Zhenyong Wu, Ben O'Shaughnessy, Pietro De Camilli, Erdem Karatekin, Yongli Zhang

“…In our approach, single proteins attached to membranes supported on silica beads are pulled by optical tweezers, allowing membrane binding and unbinding transitions to be measured with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. …”
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Multifunctional virus manipulation with large-scale arrays of all-dielectric resonant nanocavities by Shi, Yuzhi, Wu, Yongfeng, Chin, Lip Ke, Li, Zhenyu, Liu, Jingquan, Chen, Mu Ku, Wang, Shubo, Zhang, Yi, Liu, Patricia Yang, Zhou, Xiaohong, Cai, Hong, Jin, Wanzhen, Yu, Yefeng, Yu, Ruozhen, Huang, Wei, Yap, Peng Huat, Xiao, Limin, Ser, Wee, Nguyen, Thi Thanh Binh, Lin, Yu-Tsung, Wu, Pin Chieh, Liao, Jiayan, Wang, Fan, Chan, C.T., Kivshar, Yuri, Tsai, Din Ping, Liu, Ai Qun

“…Spatial manipulation of a precise number of viruses for host cell infection is essential for the extensive studies of virus pathogenesis and evolution. Albeit optical tweezers have been advanced to the atomic level via optical cooling, it is still challenging to efficiently trap and manipulate arbitrary number of viruses in an aqueous environment, being restricted by insufficient strength of optical forces and a lack of multifunctional spatial manipulation techniques. …”
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CRISPR-powered optothermal nanotweezers: Diverse bio-nanoparticle manipulation and single nucleotide identification by Jiajie Chen, Zhi Chen, Changle Meng, Jianxing Zhou, Yuhang Peng, Xiaoqi Dai, Jingfeng Li, Yili Zhong, Xiaolin Chen, Wu Yuan, Ho-Pui Ho, Bruce Zhi Gao, Junle Qu, Xueji Zhang, Han Zhang, Yonghong Shao

“…Therefore, this innovative approach has endowed optical tweezers with DNA identification ability in aqueous solution which was unattainable before. …”
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On-Chip Free-Flow Measurement Revealed Possible Depletion of Macrophages by Indigestible PM2.5 within a Few Hours by the Fastest Intervals of Serial Phagocytosis by Dan Horonushi, Yuya Furumoto, Yoshiki Nakata, Toshiki Azuma, Amane Yoshida, Kenji Yasuda

“…One-by-one feeding of IgG/BSA-PS with optical tweezers was examined to confirm the phagocytosis intervals, and we found that the intervals remained constant until several times before the maximum number of antigens for engulfment, also indicating no change in the phagocytosis rate constant regardless of the history of former phagocytosis and phagocytosis number. …”
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Influence of acidity on liquid–liquid phase transitions of mixed secondary organic aerosol (SOA) proxy–inorganic aerosol droplets by Y. Chen, X. Pei, H. Liu, Y. Meng, Z. Xu, F. Zhang, C. Xiong, T. C. Preston, T. C. Preston, Z. Wang, Z. Wang

“…In this work, we employed aerosol optical tweezers (AOT) to probe the impact of acidity on the phase transition behavior of levitated aerosol particles. …”
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Development of a human-guided micro-manipulation system using touch-screen interface by Xiao, Xue

“…In the recent decades, in the field of micromanipulation for biomedical and material sciences, optical tweezer has played a significant role in facilitating the operation of research and development of technologies. …”
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Molecular dynamics simulation of stretching-force-induced H-type RNA pseudoknot unfolding by Seah, Yi Ling

“…Microscopic molecular structures and dynamic processes, which cannot be observed in optical tweezer experiments, will be illustrated. Both molecular dynamics simulations and optical tweezer experiments revealed that the delta U177 pseudoknot can unfold using three types of pathways. …”
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Quantum Sensing in Tweezer Arrays: Optical Magnetometry on an Individual-Atom Sensor Grid by Dominik Schäffner, Tobias Schreiber, Fabian Lenz, Malte Schlosser, Gerhard Birkl

“…An additional steerable optical tweezer allows rearrangement of atoms within the grid and enables single-atom scanning microscopy with submicron resolution. …”
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Optical deposition of carbon nano-particles on waveguides by Nguyen, Duy Anh.

“…The studies will include building up models of optical tweezer effect on different particles and waveguides. …”
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Graphene-based Q-switched pulsed fiber laser in a linear configuration by Yap, Yuen Kiat, De La Rue, Richard Michael, Pua, Chang Hong, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi, Ahmad, Harith

“…The graphene is exfoliated from its solution using an optical deposition and the optical tweezer effect. A fiber ferrule that already has the graphene deposited on it is inserted into an erbium-ytterbium laser (EYL) system with linear cavity configuration. …”

Thermalization of a Trapped Single Atom with an Atomic Thermal Bath by Rahul Sawant, Anna Maffei, Giovanni Barontini

“…We studied a single atom trapped in an optical tweezer interacting with a thermal bath of ultracold atoms of a different species. …”
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Measuring lateral efficiency of optical traps: The effect of tube length by Reihani, S, Khalesifard, H, Golestanian, R

“…An optical tweezer setup is made based on a custom-designed inverted microscope, which can work both in finite and infinite tube length microscopy modes. …”

Extracting Work Optimally with Imprecise Measurements by Luis Dinis, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo

“…In this paper, we show how to reversibly confine a Brownian particle in an optical tweezer potential and then extract the corresponding increase of the free energy as work. …”
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