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

The significant advances in synthesis and functionalization have enabled the preparation of
high-quality nanoparticles that have found a plethora of successful applications. The unique …

Light manipulation has been widely employed in lighting, display, and energy storage,
becoming an inseparable part of human lives. However, the conventional optical devices …

Silicon nanoparticles (Si NPs) supporting Mie resonances exhibit vivid structural colors on
the subwavelength scale. For future wearable devices, next generation Si-based optical …

Self-assembled nanostructures can be created as the spontaneous organization of
individual nanomaterials via entropy maximization (under suitable conditions) into ordered …

Colloidal crystals of micrometer-sized colloids create prismatic structural colors through the
grating diffraction of visible light. Here, we develop design rules to engineer such structural …

Opto-thermoelectric tweezers (OTET), which exploit the thermophoretic matter migration
under a light-directed temperature field, present a new platform for manipulating colloidal …

Active colloids are modular assemblies of distinct micro‐and nanoscale components that
can perform complex robotic tasks. While recent advances in templated assembly methods …

A bidimensional (2D) thermotropic liquid crystal (LC) is investigated with Molecular
Dynamics (MD) simulations. The Gay-Berne mesogen with parameterization GB (3, 5, 2, 1) …

We have improved the maximum two-dimensional translation rate of optically tweezed
silicon nanowires to 30 μm/s while lowering the power usage by an order of magnitude from …