ArticleScience advances2021
Opto-refrigerative tweezers.
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- Photopyroelectric tweezers for versatile manipulation.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2025Article
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- Thermo-optical tweezers based on photothermal waveguides.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2024Article
- Optothermal Needle-Free Injection of Vaterite Nanocapsules.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Recent Advancements in Nanophotonics for Optofluidics.Advances in physics: X · 2024Article
- Hypothermal opto-thermophoretic tweezers.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Nucleation and Growth of Bipyramidal Yb:LiYFChemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2023Article
- Multimodal Optothermal Manipulations along Various Surfaces.ACS nano · 2023Article
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- Optothermal rotation of micro-/nano-objects.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2023Review
- Hypothermal opto-thermophoretic tweezers.Research square · 2023Article
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- Bubble-pen lithography: Fundamentals and applications: Nanoscience: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Paul S. Weiss.Aggregate (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2022Article
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- Heat-Mediated Optical Manipulation.Chemical reviews · 2022Review
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Abstract
Optical tweezers offer revolutionary opportunities for both fundamental and applied research in materials science, biology, and medical engineering. However, the requirement of a strongly focused and high-intensity laser beam results in potential photon-induced and thermal damages to target objects, including nanoparticles, cells, and biomolecules. Here, we report a new type of light-based tweezers, termed opto-refrigerative tweezers, which exploit solid-state optical refrigeration and thermophoresis to trap particles and molecules at the laser-generated cold region. While laser refrigeration can avoid photothermal heating, the use of a weakly focused laser beam can further reduce the photodamages to the target object. This novel and noninvasive optical tweezing technique will bring new possibilities in the optical control of nanomaterials and biomolecules for essential applications in nanotechnology, photonics, and life science.
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