Opto-thermophoretic manipulation

S Liu, L Lin, HB Sun - Acs Nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
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 …

Biomimetic superoleophobic surfaces: focusing on their fabrication and applications

T Jiang, Z Guo, W Liu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Superoleophobic surfaces have drawn wide attention because of their special wetting
behaviour. By adjusting surface chemical composition and surface structure, different kinds …

Hydrodynamic manipulation of nano-objects by optically induced thermo-osmotic flows

M Fränzl, F Cichos - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Manipulation of nano-objects at the microscale is of great technological importance for
constructing new functional materials, manipulating tiny amounts of fluids, reconfiguring …

Microfluidics and Raman microscopy: current applications and future challenges

AF Chrimes, K Khoshmanesh, PR Stoddart… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Raman microscopy systems are becoming increasingly widespread and accessible for
characterising chemical species. Microfluidic systems are also progressively finding their …

Molecular reorientation of a nematic liquid crystal by thermal expansion

YK Kim, B Senyuk, OD Lavrentovich - Nature communications, 2012 - nature.com
A unique feature of nematic liquid crystals is orientational order of molecules that can be
controlled by electromagnetic fields, surface modifications and pressure gradients. Here we …

Analytical characterization using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and microfluidic sampling

C Wang, C Yu - Nanotechnology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
With the rapid development of analytical techniques, it has become much easier to detect
chemical and biological analytes, even at very low detection limits. In recent years …

Optofluidics incorporating actively controlled micro-and nano-particles

AA Kayani, K Khoshmanesh, SA Ward, A Mitchell… - …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The advent of optofluidic systems incorporating suspended particles has resulted in the
emergence of novel applications. Such systems operate based on the fact that suspended …

Thermophoretic micron-scale devices: practical approach and review

N Lee, S Wiegand - Entropy, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the development of micron-scale
devices utilizing thermal gradients to manipulate molecules and colloids, and to measure …

Shaping the gradients driving phoretic micro-swimmers: influence of swimming speed, budget of carbonic acid and environment

N Möller, B Liebchen, T Palberg - The European Physical Journal E, 2021 - Springer
Abstract pH gradient-driven modular micro-swimmers are investigated as a model for a large
variety of quasi-two-dimensional chemi-phoretic self-propelled entities. Using three-channel …

Thermoplasmonic Manipulation for the Study of Single Polymers and Protein Aggregates

DJ Simon, F Hartmann, T Thalheim… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heat generation by means of plasmonic structures, which is at the heart of
thermoplasmonics, has stimulated intense research on the manipulation of matter in liquid …