Electromagnetic forces and torques enable many key technologies, including optical
tweezers or dielectrophoresis. Interestingly, both techniques rely on the same physical …

Microfluidic technology has emerged as a promising tool in various applications, including
biosensing, disease diagnosis, and environmental monitoring. One of the notable features of …

Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Noninvasive and nondestructive techniques for monitoring and manipulating cells or
biomolecules are essential for understanding biological processes. Optical methodologies …

Anisotropic hybrid nanostructures stand out as promising therapeutic agents in photothermal
conversion-based treatments. Accordingly, understanding local heat generation mediated …

Optical tweezers system has emerged as an efficient tool to manipulate tiny particles in a
non-invasive way. Trapping stiffness, as an essential parameter of an optical potential well …

Plasmonic nanostructures have immense potentials for extreme concentration of light into
deep‐subwavelength spaces with giant local field intensity, which can be exploited for novel …

In this mini-review, recent advances on the role of a focused laser in micro-and nanofluidic
systems is widely introduced with special interest in thermo-fluid dynamical aspects and …

Arbitrary shaping of temperature fields at the nanometre scale is an important goal in
nanotechnology; however, this is challenging because of the diffusive nature of heat …

This article reviews optical manipulation coupled with photochemical/photothermal
responses of nanometer sized materials including molecular systems, polymers, and …