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
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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- Optical tweezers
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