State-of-the-Art in Optical Trapping and Manipulation
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A:Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 11413
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical tweezers; optical binding; singular optics; biophysics
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Interests: optical tweezers; microfluidics; interfacial transport phenomena; synthetic biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the previous Special Issues of Micromachines, “Optical Trapping and Manipulation” Volume 1 (2019) and Volume 2 (2021), we are pleased to announce the continuation of the Special Issue series with Volume 3 to be titled “State-of-the-Art in Optical Trapping and Manipulation”, and scheduled for publication in 2022–2023.
The Special Issue welcomes contributions on all aspects of optical trapping and manipulation. These may comprise both theoretical and experimental studies, and applications of optical manipulation methods in fields including (but not limited to) single-molecule biophysics, cell biology, microrheology, colloidal interactions, nanotechnology, atmospheric chemistry, and fundamental optics are particularly welcome to showcase the breadth of the current research.
The Special Issue will accept all forms of contributions, including research papers, communications, methods, and review articles that represent the current state of the art in optical trapping.
Prof. Dr. Philip Jones
Dr. Guido Bolognesi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical tweezers
- optical trapping
- plasmonics
- nanoscience
- biology
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