Search Results - "Magazzù, Alessandro"
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Raman Tweezers for Small Microplastics and Nanoplastics Identification in Seawater
Published in Environmental science & technology (06-08-2019)“…Our understanding of the fate and distribution of micro- and nano- plastics in the marine environment is limited by the intrinsic difficulties of the…”
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Investigation of Soft Matter Nanomechanics by Atomic Force Microscopy and Optical Tweezers: A Comprehensive Review
Published in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) (07-03-2023)“…Soft matter exhibits a multitude of intrinsic physico-chemical attributes. Their mechanical properties are crucial characteristics to define their performance…”
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Microscopic Engine Powered by Critical Demixing
Published in Physical review letters (09-02-2018)“…We experimentally demonstrate a microscopic engine powered by the local reversible demixing of a critical mixture. We show that, when an absorbing microsphere…”
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Optical tweezers and their applications
Published in Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer (01-10-2018)“…•We review optical tweezers and their applications.•T-matrix methods for calculations of optical forces.•Overview of typical optical tweezers calibration…”
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Wavelength-Dependent Optical Force Aggregation of Gold Nanorods for SERS in a Microfluidic Chip
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (07-03-2019)“…Optical printing of metal-nanoparticle–protein complexes in microfluidic chips is of particular interest in view of the potential applications in biomolecular…”
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Photonic Torque Microscopy of the Nonconservative Force Field for Optically Trapped Silicon Nanowires
Published in Nano letters (13-07-2016)“…We measure, by photonic torque microscopy, the nonconservative rotational motion arising from the transverse components of the radiation pressure on optically…”
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Optical trapping and critical Casimir forces
Published in European physical journal plus (01-02-2021)“…Critical Casimir forces emerge between objects, such as colloidal particles, whenever their surfaces spatially confine the fluctuations of the order parameter…”
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Optically Driven Janus Microengine with Full Orbital Motion Control
Published in ACS photonics (20-09-2023)“…Microengines have shown promise for a variety of applications in nanotechnology, microfluidics, and nanomedicine, including targeted drug delivery, microscale…”
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Optical calibration of holographic acoustic tweezers
Published in IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement (01-01-2023)“…Recently, acoustic tweezers based on an array of ultrasonic transducers have been reported taking inspiration from holographic optical tweezers. In the latter…”
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Optimal calibration of optical tweezers with arbitrary integration time and sampling frequencies: a general framework [Invited]
Published in Biomedical optics express (01-12-2023)“…Optical tweezers (OT) have become an essential technique in several fields of physics, chemistry, and biology as precise micromanipulation tools and…”
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Detection of microplastics and nanoplastics: Are Raman tweezers and enhanced Raman methods the solution for sub 20 μm particles?
Published in EPJ Web of conferences (2024)“…Despite the significant progress in the detection of nano and small microplastics, the detection of such particles still faces problems caused by the…”
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Faster and More Accurate Geometrical-Optics Optical Force Calculation Using Neural Networks
Published in ACS photonics (18-01-2023)“…Optical forces are often calculated by discretizing the trapping light beam into a set of rays and using geometrical optics to compute the exchange of…”
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Raman Tweezers for small microplastics and nano-plastics identification in seawater
Published in Environmental science & technology (01-07-2019)“…Our understanding of the fate and distribution of micro- and nano- plastics in the marine environ-ment is limited by the intrinsic difficulties of the…”
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Optical trapping and critical Casimir forces
Published 04-08-2020“…Critical Casimir forces emerge between objects, such as colloidal particles, whenever their surfaces spatially confine the fluctuations of the order parameter…”
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Faster and more accurate geometrical-optics optical force calculation using neural networks
Published 05-09-2022“…Optical forces are often calculated by discretizing the trapping light beam into a set of rays and using geometrical optics to compute the exchange of…”
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Optically Driven Janus Micro Engine with Full Orbital Motion Control
Published 11-05-2023“…Microengines have shown promise for a variety of applications in nanotechnology, microfluidics and nanomedicine, including targeted drug delivery, microscale…”
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Controlling the dynamics of colloidal particles by critical Casimir forces
Published 29-06-2018“…Critical Casimir forces can play an important role for applications in nano-science and nanotechnology, owing to their piconewton strength, nanometric action…”
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Optical Tweezers: A Comprehensive Tutorial from Calibration to Applications
Published 10-04-2020“…Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy,…”
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Optimal calibration of optical tweezers with arbitrary integration time and sampling frequencies -- A general framework
Published 12-05-2023“…Optical tweezers (OT) have become an essential technique in several fields of physics, chemistry, and biology as precise micromanipulation tools and…”
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Optical Calibration of Holographic Acoustic Tweezers
Published 14-03-2024“…in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 72, pp. 1-8, 2023, , Art no. 9600808 Recently, acoustic tweezers based on an array of ultrasonic…”
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