Innovations in exploiting photo-controlled Marangoni flows for soft matter actuations

C Farzeena, TV Vinay, BS Lekshmi, CM Ragisha… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The generation and control of microscale flows are crucial for fundamental as well as
applied aspects of microfluidics. Commonly employed strategies for creating microflows are …

[PDF][PDF] Colloidal Manipulation through Plasmonic and Non-plasmonic Laser-Assisted Heating

K Monisha, K Suresh, SD George - Laser and Photonics Reviews, 2023 - researchgate.net
In spite of the long-term awareness of the conversion of light to heat even in materials with
low absorption coefficient via the photothermal effect and consequent usage of the effect to …

Optical printing of plasmonic nanoparticles for SERS studies of analytes and thermophoretically trapped biological cell

K Monisha, K Suresh, A Bankapur… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The optical printing of nanoparticles at pre-defined locations is emerging as an area of
intense research due to its potential applications in diverse fields, ranging from photonics to …

Non-adhesive contrast substrate for single-cell trapping and Raman spectroscopic analysis

A Peethan, M Aravind, S Chidangil, SD George - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet splitting by exploiting tailored surface wettability is emerging as an important
pathway to creating ultralow volumes of samples that can have applications in bioassays …

An optical soot sizing method without prior morphology parameters

J Zeng, A Bian, S Wang, S Yan, W Cheng, T Deng - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
Great concern has been focused on the particle size distribution (PSD) of soot as a crucial
factor of the physical and chemical properties. Optical methods are widely used to analyze …

[HTML][HTML] Optically printed plasmonic fiber tip-assisted SERS-based chemical sensing and single biological cell studies

K Monisha, K Suresh, A Bankapur, SD George - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Precise localized printing of plasmonic nanoparticles at desired locations can
find a plethora of applications in diverse areas, including nanophotonics, nanomedicine …

An opto-thermal approach for assembling yeast cells by laser heating of a trapped light absorbing particle

B Zhang, XF Zhang, M Shao, C Meng, F Ji… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Cell assembly has important applications in biomedical research, which can be achieved
with laser-heating induced thermal convective flow. In this paper, an opto-thermal approach …