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ArticleSoft matter2022

A hydro-thermophoretic trap for microparticles near a gold-coated substrate.

Gokul Nalupurackal, M Gunaseelan, Srestha Roy, Muruga Lokesh, Sumeet Kumar, Rahul Vaippully, Rajesh Singh, Basudev Roy

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Article in Soft matter, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Thermo-optical tweezers based on photothermal waveguides.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2024
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8 authors.

Gokul NalupurackalDepartment of Physics, Quantum Centres in Diamond and Emergent Materials (QuCenDiEM)-group, Micro Nano and Bio-Fluidics (MNBF)-Group, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India. basudev@iitm.ac.in.
M GunaseelanDepartment of Physics, Quantum Centres in Diamond and Emergent Materials (QuCenDiEM)-group, Micro Nano and Bio-Fluidics (MNBF)-Group, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India. basudev@iitm.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1140-1400
Srestha RoyDepartment of Physics, Quantum Centres in Diamond and Emergent Materials (QuCenDiEM)-group, Micro Nano and Bio-Fluidics (MNBF)-Group, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India. basudev@iitm.ac.in.
Muruga LokeshDepartment of Physics, Quantum Centres in Diamond and Emergent Materials (QuCenDiEM)-group, Micro Nano and Bio-Fluidics (MNBF)-Group, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India. basudev@iitm.ac.in.
Sumeet KumarDepartment of Physics, Quantum Centres in Diamond and Emergent Materials (QuCenDiEM)-group, Micro Nano and Bio-Fluidics (MNBF)-Group, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India. basudev@iitm.ac.in.
Rahul VaippullyDepartment of Physics, Quantum Centres in Diamond and Emergent Materials (QuCenDiEM)-group, Micro Nano and Bio-Fluidics (MNBF)-Group, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India. basudev@iitm.ac.in.
Rajesh SinghDepartment of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India. rsingh@iitm.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0266-9691
Basudev RoyDepartment of Physics, Quantum Centres in Diamond and Emergent Materials (QuCenDiEM)-group, Micro Nano and Bio-Fluidics (MNBF)-Group, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India. basudev@iitm.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0737-2889

Funding

DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance IA/I/20/1/504900Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical tweezers have revolutionised micromanipulation from physics and biology to material science. However, the high laser power involved in optical trapping can damage biological samples. In this context, indirect trapping of microparticles and objects using fluid flow fields has assumed great importance. It has recently been shown that cells and particles can be turned in the pitch sense by opto-plasmonic heating of a gold surface constituting one side of a sample chamber. We extend that work to place two such hotspots in close proximity to each other to form a very unique configuration of flow fields forming an effective quasi-three-dimensional 'trap', assisted by thermophoresis. This is effectively a harmonic trap confining particles in all three dimensions without relying on other factors to confine the particles close to the surface. We use this to show indirect trapping of different types of upconverting particles and cells, and also show that we can approach a trap stiffness of 40 fN μm

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