Towards biological applications of nanophotonic tweezers.

Towards biological applications of nanophotonic tweezers.
Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2019 Oct 31;53:158-166
Authors: Badman RP, Ye F, Wang MD
Abstract
Optical trapping (synonymous with optical tweezers) has become a core biophysical technique widely used for interrogating fundamental biological processes on size scales ranging from the single-molecule to the cellular level. Recent advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of 'nanophotonic tweezers,' an exciting new class of 'on-chip' optical traps. Here, we describe how nanophotonic tweezers are making optical trap technology more broadly accessible and bringing unique biosensing and manipulation capabilities to biological applications of optical trapping.
PMID: 31678712 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Biology - October 30, 2019 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Badman RP, Ye F, Wang MD Tags: Curr Opin Chem Biol Source Type: research