ArticleNature communications2021
Reconfigurable multi-component micromachines driven by optoelectronic tweezers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Automated and collision-free navigation of multiple micro-objects in obstacle-dense microenvironments using optoelectronic tweezers.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Article
- Optical sorting: past, present and future.Light, science & applications · 2025Review
- Transverse optical gradient force in untethered rotating metaspinners.Light, science & applications · 2025Article
- Photopyroelectric tweezers for versatile manipulation.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2025Article
- Lightweight and drift-free magnetically actuated millirobots via asymmetric laser-induced graphene.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Optoelectronically navigated nano-kirigami microrotors.Science advances · 2024Article
- Recent Advancements in Nanophotonics for Optofluidics.Advances in physics: X · 2024Article
- Microparticle electrical conductivity measurement using optoelectronic tweezers.Journal of applied physics · 2023Article
- Hypothermal opto-thermophoretic tweezers.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Resolution improvement of optoelectronic tweezers using patterned electrodes.Applied physics letters · 2023Article
- Double and Square Bessel-Gaussian Beams.Micromachines · 2023Article
- Hypothermal opto-thermophoretic tweezers.Research square · 2023Article
- Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots.Science robotics · 2022Article
- Reversible morphology-resolved chemotactic actuation and motion of Janus emulsion droplets.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
There is great interest in the development of micromotors which can convert energy to motion in sub-millimeter dimensions. Micromachines take the micromotor concept a step further, comprising complex systems in which multiple components work in concert to effectively realize complex mechanical tasks. Here we introduce light-driven micromotors and micromachines that rely on optoelectronic tweezers (OET). Using a circular micro-gear as a unit component, we demonstrate a range of new functionalities, including a touchless micro-feed-roller that allows the programming of precise three-dimensional particle trajectories, multi-component micro-gear trains that serve as torque- or velocity-amplifiers, and micro-rack-and-pinion systems that serve as microfluidic valves. These sophisticated systems suggest great potential for complex micromachines in the future, for application in microrobotics, micromanipulation, microfluidics, and beyond.
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