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ArticleACS nano2024

Optical Actuation of Nanoparticle-Loaded Liquid-Liquid Interfaces for Active Photonics.

Youngsun Kim, Kan Yao, Carolina Ponce, Yuebing Zheng

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Article in ACS nano, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Youngsun KimMaterials Science and Engineering Program, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5219-8408
Kan YaoMaterials Science and Engineering Program, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9144-2618
Carolina PonceWalker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
Yuebing ZhengMaterials Science and Engineering Program, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9168-9477

Funding

Four-dimensional Adhesion Frequency Assay for Full Profiling of Receptor-ligand Interactions on CellsR01GM146962 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI ZHENG, YUEBING · 2022 to 2025
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM146962
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid-liquid interfaces hold the potential to serve as versatile platforms for dynamic processes, due to their inherent fluidity and capacity to accommodate surface-active materials. This study explores laser-driven actuation of liquid-liquid interfaces with and without loading of gold nanoparticles and further exploits the laser-actuated interfaces with nanoparticles for tunable photonics. Upon laser exposure, gold nanoparticles were rearranged along the interface, enabling the reconfigurable, small-aperture modulation of light transmission and the tunable lensing effect. Adapting the principles of optical and optothermal tweezers, we interpreted the underlying mechanisms of actuation and modulation as a synergy of optomechanical and optothermal effects. Our findings provide an analytical framework for understanding microscopic interfacial behaviors, contributing to potential applications in tunable photonics and interfacial material engineering.

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gold nanoparticleslight modulationliquid−liquid interfaceoptical actuationself-assembly

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PMID38850254
PMCPMC11299852

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