ArticleNature communications2025
Time-varying 3D optical torque via a single beam.
Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Passive Metasurface Tweezers for Multi-Scale Orbital Transport and Trapping on Elastic Plates.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Optical Torque Modulation of CsMicromachines · 2026Article
- Programmable rotation of single cells along arbitrary axes via opto-thermo-osmotic torque.Light, science & applications · 2026Article
- Helical opto-thermoviscous flows drive out-of-plane rotation and particle spinning in a highly viscous micro-environment.Light, science & applications · 2026Article
- Customizable Fully Structured Vector Trajectory Beams in the Focal Plane via a Single-Layer Metasurface.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Article
- Scalable generalized meta-spanners enabling parallel multitasking optical manipulation.Science advances · 2026Article
- Nano calligraphy via optical electro-aligning manipulation.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Article
- Optical Tweezers in Emulsion Research: Principles, Advances, and Prospects.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026Review
- Tunable 3D optohydrodynamic torques from optical phase gradient-driven colloidal assemblies.Science advances · 2026Article
- Low-power optical tweezers using large-diameter Gaussian and vortex beams for giant bubble trapping and rotation in fluorescent dye media.Scientific reports · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The spin angular momentum (SAM) plays a significant role in light-matter interactions. It is well known that light carrying SAM can exert optical torques on micro-objects and drive rotations, but 3D rotation around an arbitrary axis remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate full control of the 3D optical torque acting on a trapped microparticle by tailoring the vectorial SAM transfer. To this end, we construct a theoretical relationship between the 3D SAM vector of a tightly focused field and the local polarization helicity of the incident field. In practice, a single-beam configuration is proposed for dynamic 3D SAM manipulation, facilitating time-varying vectorial SAM transfer to particles. Control of 3D optical torque on birefringent microparticles is validated by simulations, and dynamic 3D rotations of optically trapped particles around arbitrary axes are experimentally demonstrated. Our work paves the way for manipulating 3D optical torque and particle spinning, which is expected to boost new functionalities and applications of optical tweezers.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.