Impelled by the need to find solutions to new challenges of modern technologies new
materials with unique properties are being explored. Among various new materials that …

Magnetorheological (MR) materials are a kind of smart materials whose mechanical
properties can be altered in a controlled fashion by an external magnetic field. They …

An overview of the recent developments in the field of cylindrical vector beams is provided.
As one class of spatially variant polarization, cylindrical vector beams are the axially …

Reviews the history of optical trapping and manipulation of small-neutral particles, from the
time of its origin in 1970 up to the present. As we shall see, the unique characteristics of this …

We demonstrate a technique for optical manipulation of micron-sized particles, including
biological samples, using a zeroth-order Bessel light beam. The central maximum of such a …

Organic/inorganic hybrid materials prepared by the sol–gel approach have rapidly become
a fascinating new field of research in materials science. The explosion of activity in this area …

The size and complexity of the structure of macromolecules allows the combination of
different, in some cases even antagonistic, properties, eg, in solubility, in flexibility, or …

We propose a new micromechanical approach to probe bending rigidity at molecular scale.
Long flexible filaments made of magnetic colloids and linkers are shown to adopt under …

The dynamics and lateral interactions of dipolar chains in magnetorheological suspensions
determine the long-time microscopic structure and resulting rheological response. In this …

Efforts at understanding the behaviour of complex materials at the micro scale have led to
the development of many microrheological techniques capable of probing viscoelastic …