1D Colloidal chains: recent progress from formation to emergent properties and applications

X Fan, A Walther - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …

Stimuli-responsive plasmonic assemblies and their biomedical applications

Q Fu, Z Li, F Fu, X Chen, J Song, H Yang - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Among the diverse development of stimuli-responsive assemblies, plasmonic nanoparticle
(NP) assemblies functionalized with responsive molecules are of a major interest. In this …

Optical manipulation with metamaterial structures

Y Shi, Q Song, I Toftul, T Zhu, Y Yu, W Zhu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Optical tweezers employing forces produced by light underpin important manipulation tools
employed in numerous areas of applied and biological physics. Conventional optical …

Multifunctional Virus Manipulation with Large‐Scale Arrays of All‐Dielectric Resonant Nanocavities

Y Shi, Y Wu, LK Chin, Z Li, J Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial manipulation of a precise number of viruses for host cell infection is essential for the
extensive studies of virus pathogenesis and evolution. Albeit optical tweezers have been …

Optofluidic tweezers: efficient and versatile micro/nano-manipulation tools

Y Zhu, M You, Y Shi, H Huang, Z Wei, T He, S Xiong… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Optical tweezers (OTs) can transfer light momentum to particles, achieving the precise
manipulation of particles through optical forces. Due to the properties of non-contact and …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic multiple nanoparticle trapping using metamaterial plasmonic tweezers

DG Kotsifaki, VG Truong, S Nic Chormaic - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Optical manipulation has attracted remarkable interest owing to its versatile and noninvasive
nature. However, conventional optical trapping remains inefficient in the nanoscopic world …

On‐chip laser processing for the development of multifunctional microfluidic chips

H Wang, YL Zhang, W Wang, H Ding… - Laser & Photonics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the development of microfluidic chips, conventional 2D processing technologies
contribute to the manufacturing of basic microchannel networks. Nevertheless, in the pursuit …

Optical trapping-formed colloidal assembly with horns extended to the outside of a focus through light propagation

T Kudo, SF Wang, K Yuyama, H Masuhara - Nano Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report optical trapping and assembling of colloidal particles at a glass/solution interface
with a tightly focused laser beam of high intensity. It is generally believed that the particles …

A single large assembly with dynamically fluctuating swarms of gold nanoparticles formed by trapping laser

T Kudo, SJ Yang, H Masuhara - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Laser trapping has been utilized as tweezers to three-dimensionally trap nanoscale objects
and has provided significant impacts in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The objects are …

Dissipative Self‐Assembly of Anisotropic Nanoparticle Chains with Combined Electrodynamic and Electrostatic Interactions

F Nan, F Han, NF Scherer, Z Yan - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dissipative self‐assembly of colloidal nanoparticles offers the prospect of creating
reconfigurable artificial materials and systems, yet the phenomenon only occurs far from …