Abstract
Plasmon-enhanced optical heating can synergize optics and thermal fields to offer a versatile platform for optothermal manipulation of colloidal particles and living cells. By exploiting entropically favorable photon-phonon conversion and universal heat-directed migration, various optothermal tweezing techniques have been developed. Under the thermal gradient field enabled by plasmonic heating, opto-thermophoretic tweezers harness the permittivity gradient at particle-solvent interfaces to direct particles and cells toward the plasmonic hotspot via thermophoresis. Opto-thermoelectric tweezers can manipulate charged colloidal particles with various sizes, materials, and shapes in a localized electric field that is generated by the plasmon-enhanced electrolyte Seebeck effect. In addition, conventional plasmonic trapping can be significantly improved by three types of plasmon-enhanced optothermal-hydrodynamics, i.e., thermo-plasmonic convection, Marangoni convection, and electrothermoplasmonic flow. These plasmon-enhanced optothermal convective flows can rapidly transport or concentrate free-dispersed objects to the plasmonic nanostructures, which significantly enhance the trapping efficiency of micro-and nano-objects. With their low operational power, simple optics, and wide applicability, plasmon-enhanced optothermal manipulation techniques can be applied to optothermal assembly of colloidal matter, non-invasive manipulation of cells and biological objects, and in-situ characterization of optical coupling in colloidal superstructures for a wide range of applications in photonics, materials science, colloidal science, biology, and medical engineering.
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Chen, Z., Li, J., Zheng, Y. (2022). Plasmon-Enhanced Optothermal Manipulation. In: Yu, P., Xu, H., Wang, Z.M. (eds) Plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87544-2_10
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