Ice-phase optothermal tweezers
Jianxing Zhou, Yuhang Peng, Peng Du, Zhen Chen, Jinming Zhang, Zhengtian Jin, Xiaoqi Dai, Yinyue Ji, Meiting Wang, Yuye Wang, Yuebing Zheng, Jiajie Chen, Junle Qu, Yonghong Shao · 2026
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Description
Jianxing Zhou's team presents ice-phase light-heat tweezers, a deep-cold platform that moves micro- and nano shapes at the ice-water edge. Brownian motion, surface sticking, and stuff constraints had blocked exact rebuilding of mixed shapes.
A laser-induced mobile melting zone in ice moved nano bits, proteins, DNA, and even micro bubbles at ten to one hundred microns per second with nano-scale detail. The team built multi-stuff mixed builds with tailored uneven and twisted optical responses, enabling twisted light tech and angle-controlled nano light under deep-cold conditions. The tweezers moved particles at ten to one hundred microns per second.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jianxing Zhou, Yuhang Peng, Peng Du, Zhen Chen, Jinming Zhang, Zhengtian Jin, Xiaoqi Dai, Yinyue Ji, Meiting Wang, Yuye Wang, Yuebing Zheng, Jiajie Chen, Junle Qu, Yonghong Shao |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |