Energy and water are of fundamental importance for our modern society, and advanced
technologies on sustainable energy storage and conversion as well as water resource …

Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Hydrogels are soft materials composed of a three-dimensional (3D) hydrophilic polymer
network filled with a large amount of water. Different from rigid machines, hydrogel-based …

Functional nanoparticles (NPs) hold immense promise in diverse fields due to their unique
biological, chemical, and physical properties associated with size or morphology …

The optical manipulation of tiny objects is significant to understand and to explore the
unknown in the microworld, which has found many applications in materials science and life …

Inspired by the “run-and-tumble” behaviours of Escherichia coli (E. coli) cells, we develop
opto-thermoelectric microswimmers. The microswimmers are based on dielectric-Au Janus …

Recent advances in chemical sciences have enabled the tailorable synthesis of colloidal
particles with variable composition, size, shape, and properties. Building superstructures …

Nanoaperture-based plasmonic tweezers have shown tremendous potential in trapping,
sensing, and spectroscopic analysis of nano-objects with single-molecule sensitivity …

Optothermal manipulation is a versatile technique that combines optical and thermal forces
to control synthetic micro-/nanoparticles and biological entities. This emerging technique …

Recent advances in the field of two-dimensional (2D) materials have led to new electronic
and photonic devices enabled by their unique properties at atomic thickness. Structuring 2D …