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

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 Soret effect describes diffusive motion that originates from a temperature gradient. It is
observed in mixtures of gases, liquids and even solids. Although there is a formal …

A temperature gradient acts like an external field on colloidal suspensions and drives the
solute particles to the cold or to the warm, depending on interfacial and solvent properties …

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 …

Thermophoresis is particle motion induced by thermal gradients. Akin to other driven
transport processes, such as the Soret effect in simple fluid mixtures, or electrophoresis and …

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 …

Thermophoresis is particle drift induced by a temperature gradient. By measuring the full
temperature dependence of this effect for polystyrene latex suspensions, we show that the …

Thermophoresis is particle motion induced by thermal gradients. Akin to other
nonequilibrium transport processes such as thermal diffusion in fluid mixtures, it is both …