{"id":176785,"date":"2023-11-26T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/optical-trapping-of-optical-nanoparticles-fundamentals-and-applications"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:25:55","slug":"optical-trapping-of-optical-nanoparticles-fundamentals-and-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/optical-trapping-of-optical-nanoparticles-fundamentals-and-applications","title":{"rendered":"Optical trapping of optical nanoparticles: Fundamentals and applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optical-trapping-of-optical-nanoparticles-fundamentals-and-applications3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oejournal.org\/\/article\/doi\/10.29026\/oes.2023.230019\">published<\/a> in <i>Opto-Electronic Science<\/i> reviews the fundamentals and applications of optically trapped optical nanoparticles. Optical nanoparticles are one of the key elements of photonics. They not only allow optical imaging of a plethora of systems (from cells to microelectronics), but also behave as highly sensitive remote sensors.<\/p>\n<p>The success of optical tweezers in isolating and manipulating individual optical nanoparticles has been recently demonstrated. This has opened the door to high-resolution, single-particle scanning and sensing.<\/p>\n<p>The most relevant results in the quickly growing fields of optical trapping of individual optical nanoparticles are summarized by this article. According to different materials and their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical properties<\/a>, the optical nanoparticles are classified into five families: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasmonic+nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasmonic nanoparticles<\/a>, lanthanide-doped nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles, semiconductor nanoparticles, and nanodiamonds. For each case, the main advances and applications have been described.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article published in Opto-Electronic Science reviews the fundamentals and applications of optically trapped optical nanoparticles. Optical nanoparticles are one of the key elements of photonics. They not only allow optical imaging of a plethora of systems (from cells to microelectronics), but also behave as highly sensitive remote sensors. The success of optical tweezers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}