New 'nanotweezers' open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech
March 27, 2018, University of Texas at Austin
It's difficult to conceptualize a world where humans could casually manipulate nanoscale objects at will or even control their own biological matter at a cellular level with light. But that is precisely what Yuebing Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is working toward with his "nanotweezers"—a new tool for handling nanoparticles using light that could create opportunities for innovations in nanotechnology and individual health monitoring.
Building upon several years of research, Zheng and his team from the Cockrell School of Engineering have developed opto-thermoelectric nanotweezers (OTENT) that will help lead to a greater understanding of matter and biological systems and open a range of possibilities for fundamental and technical innovation in nanophotonics—the study of light-matter interaction on the nanometer scale. They explain their new work in the latest issue of the journal Nature Photonics.
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