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ArticleNature nanotechnology2021

Microscopic metavehicles powered and steered by embedded optical metasurfaces.

Daniel Andrén, Denis G Baranov, Steven Jones, Giovanni Volpe, Ruggero Verre, Mikael Käll

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Light-driven micro/nanobots.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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  10. Microscopic geared metamachines.Nature communications · 2025
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  14. Optical sorting: past, present and future.Light, science & applications · 2025
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  19. Intelligent indoor metasurface robotics.National science review · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Daniel AndrénDepartment of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. daniel.andren@chalmers.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0682-5129
Denis G BaranovDepartment of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Steven JonesDepartment of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2813-1945
Giovanni VolpePhysics Department, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5057-1846
Ruggero VerreDepartment of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mikael KällDepartment of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. mikael.kall@chalmers.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1163-0345

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanostructured dielectric metasurfaces offer unprecedented opportunities to manipulate light by imprinting an arbitrary phase gradient on an impinging wavefront

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MicroscopyOptical DevicesLensesLightMotionNanostructuresSurface Properties

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