optical tweezers
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instrument using a highly focused laser to provide an attractive or repulsive force (on the order of piconewtons) to hold and move microscopic dielectric objects similar to tweezers
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Within Vinony's link graph, optical tweezers is referenced by 179 other articles, and connects out to Gaussian beam, momentum and electromagnetic field.
It is catalogued under topics including 1986 introductions, Biophysics and Cell biology.
Its subject is documented across 25 Wikipedia language editions.
Research
5,231 papers- Optical tweezers for drug discovery.Drug discovery today · 2023
- Optical Tweezers to Study Viruses.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2024
- Optical tweezers in biomedical research - progress and techniques.Journal of medicine and life · 2024
- Optical tweezers across scales in cell biology.Trends in cell biology · 2022
- Line optical tweezers as controllable micromachines: techniques and emerging trends.Soft matter · 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- scientific instrument
- Named after
- tweezers
- Image
- Silica Nanosphere in Optical Tweezer.jpg
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- Commons category
- Optical tweezers
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