Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants
and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific and public interest. These tiny plastic …

Fast detection and identification of microorganisms is a challenging and significant feature
from industry to medicine. Standard approaches are known to be very time-consuming and …

The advent of glass-based microfluidic devices further revolutionized in microfluidic
technology due to the several advantageous properties in terms of photonics, electronics …

Optical tweezers (OT) have emerged as an essential tool for manipulating single biological
cells and performing sophisticated biophysical/biomechanical characterizations. Distinct …

Significant advances have been made in recent years in technologies to monitor drinking
water quality for source water protection, treatment operations, and distribution system …

Raman spectroscopy is a nondestructive, label-free, highly specific approach that provides
the chemical information on materials. Thus, it is suitable to be used as an effective …

First, the potential role of Raman-based techniques in biomedicine is introduced. Second,
an overview about the instrumentation for spontaneous and coherent Raman scattering …

The inherent heterogeneity in cell populations has become of great interest and importance
as analytical techniques have improved over the past decades. With the advent of …

We review the combinations of optical micro‐manipulation with other techniques and their
classical and emerging applications to non‐contact optical separation and sorting of micro …

Since the application of molecular methods, culture-independent methods (CIMs) have been
developed to study microbial communities from various environments. In the past 20 years …