{"id":202622,"date":"2024-12-28T08:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/researchers-develop-novel-photopyroelectric-tweezer-for-versatile-manipulation"},"modified":"2024-12-28T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:27:57","slug":"researchers-develop-novel-photopyroelectric-tweezer-for-versatile-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/researchers-develop-novel-photopyroelectric-tweezer-for-versatile-manipulation","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop novel photopyroelectric tweezer for versatile manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-novel-photopyroelectric-tweezer-for-versatile-manipulation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Optical tweezers and related techniques provide extraordinary opportunities for research and applications in the physical, biological, and medical fields. However, certain requirements such as high-intensity laser beams, sophisticated electrode designs, additional electric sources, and low-conductive media, significantly impede their flexibility and adaptability, thus hindering their practical applications.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2666675824001802\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>The Innovation<\/i>, a research team led by Dr. Du Xuemin from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a novel photopyroelectric tweezer (PPT) that combines the advantages of the light and electric fields. The PPT enables versatile manipulation in various working scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed PPT consists of two key components, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/near+infrared\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">near infrared<\/a> (NIR) spectrum laser light source and a PPT device that includes a liquid medium and a photopyroelectric substrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optical tweezers and related techniques provide extraordinary opportunities for research and applications in the physical, biological, and medical fields. However, certain requirements such as high-intensity laser beams, sophisticated electrode designs, additional electric sources, and low-conductive media, significantly impede their flexibility and adaptability, thus hindering their practical applications. In a study published in The Innovation, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202622","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=202622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}