As an extended member of the thermoelectric family, ionic thermoelectrics (i‐TEs) exhibit
exceptional Seebeck coefficients and applicable power factors, and as a result have …

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

Optical manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles provides opportunities for fundamental and
technical innovation in nanophotonics. Optical heating arising from the photon-to-phonon …

3D printing of inorganic materials with nanoscale resolution offers a different materials
processing pathway to explore devices with emergent functionalities. However, existing …

The tremendous amount of wasted heat from solar radiation and industry dissipation has
motivated the development of thermoelectric concepts that directly convert heat into …

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 …

The synthetic pathways of life's building blocks are envisaged to be through a series of
complex prebiotic reactions and processes. However, the strategy to compartmentalize and …

Colloidal matter exhibits unique collective behaviors beyond what occurs at single-
nanoparticle and atomic scales. Treating colloidal particles as building blocks, researchers …

Thermophoretic micro/nanomotors (MNMs) generate self-propulsion without a chemical
reaction. Intrinsically, this promises excellent biocompatibility and is thus suitable for …

Conspectus Optical manipulation techniques are important in many fields. For instance, they
enable bottom-up assembly of nanomaterials and high-resolution and in situ analysis of …