ArticleScientific reports2016
Thermal gradient induced tweezers for the manipulation of particles and cells.
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- Biomedical Applications of Microfluidic Devices: A Review.Biosensors · 2022Review
- The role of temperature-induced effects generated by plasmonic nanostructures on particle delivery and manipulation: a review.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2022Review
- Heat-Mediated Optical Manipulation.Chemical reviews · 2022Review
- Label-free focusing of viral particles under a temperature gradient coupled with continuous swirling flow.RSC advances · 2022Article
- Plasmonic optical fiber for bacteria manipulation-characterization and visualization of accumulation behavior under plasmo-thermal trapping.Biomedical optics express · 2021Article
- Thermophoretic Micron-Scale Devices: Practical Approach and Review.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Structured silicon for revealing transient and integrated signal transductions in microbial systems.Science advances · 2020Article
- Opto-thermophoretic fiber tweezers.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2019Article
- Opto-Thermophoretic Tweezers and Assembly.Journal of micro- and nano-manufacturing · 2018Review
- Acoustic tweezers for the life sciences.Nature methods · 2018Review
- Opto-thermoelectric nanotweezers.Nature photonics · 2018Article
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Abstract
Optical tweezers are a well-established tool for manipulating small objects. However, their integration with microfluidic devices often requires an objective lens. More importantly, trapping of non-transparent or optically sensitive targets is particularly challenging for optical tweezers. Here, for the first time, we present a photon-free trapping technique based on electro-thermally induced forces. We demonstrate that thermal-gradient-induced thermophoresis and thermal convection can lead to trapping of polystyrene spheres and live cells. While the subject of thermophoresis, particularly in the micro- and nano-scale, still remains to be fully explored, our experimental results have provided a reasonable explanation for the trapping effect. The so-called thermal tweezers, which can be readily fabricated by femtosecond laser writing, operate with low input power density and are highly versatile in terms of device configuration, thus rendering high potential for integration with microfluidic devices as well as lab-on-a-chip systems.
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