{"id":192582,"date":"2024-07-09T04:26:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-develop-new-technique-for-bespoke-optical-tweezers"},"modified":"2024-07-09T04:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T09:26:45","slug":"scientists-develop-new-technique-for-bespoke-optical-tweezers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-develop-new-technique-for-bespoke-optical-tweezers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop new technique for bespoke optical tweezers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-new-technique-for-bespoke-optical-tweezers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a new way to trap small particles with light. Building on the Nobel Prize winning technique of optical tweezers (Arthur Ashkin, 2018), a team of physicists, led by Dr. David Phillips at the University of Exeter, has advanced the possibilities of optical trapping.<\/p>\n<p>The research paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adi7792\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, is titled \u201cPhoton-efficient optical <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tweezers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tweezers<\/a> via wavefront shaping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conventional optical tweezers, developed in the 1980s, are a tightly focused laser beam which can attract and trap certain micro-sized particles or organisms, akin to grabbing something with a pair of tweezers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a new way to trap small particles with light. Building on the Nobel Prize winning technique of optical tweezers (Arthur Ashkin, 2018), a team of physicists, led by Dr. David Phillips at the University of Exeter, has advanced the possibilities of optical trapping. The research paper, published in the journal Science Advances, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192582","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}