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Optical forces and torques on eccentric nanoscale core–shell particles

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Date
21/04/2021
Author
Sun, Qiang
Dholakia, Kishan
Greentree, Andrew D.
Funder
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/P030017/1
Keywords
Optical rotation of nanoparticle
Optical tweezers and trapping
Core-shell particle
Asymmetry
Gaussian beam
Polarization
Biophotonics
Nanorheology
QC Physics
QD Chemistry
QH301 Biology
T-NDAS
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Abstract
The optical trapping and manipulation of small particles is an important tool for probing fluid properties at the microscale. In particular, microrheology exploits the manipulation and rotation of micron-scale particles to probe local viscosity, especially where these properties may be perturbed as a function of their local environment, for example in the vicinity of cells. To this end, birefringent particles are useful as they can be readily controlled using optically induced forces and torques, and thereby used to probe their local environment. However, the magnitude of optical torques that can be induced in birefringent particles is small, and a function of the particle diameter, meaning that rotational flow cannot readily be probed on length scales much small than the micron level. Here we show modeling that demonstrates that eccentric spherical core–shell nanoparticles can be used to generate considerable optical torques. The eccentricity is a result of the displacement of the center of the core from the shell. Our results show that, for particles ranging from 90 to 180 nm in diameter, we may achieve rotation rates exceeding 800 Hz. This fills a missing size gap in the rotation of microparticles with optical forces. The diameter of particle we may rotate is almost an order of magnitude smaller than the smallest birefringent particles that have been successfully rotated to date. The rotation of eccentric core–shell nanoparticles therefore makes an important contribution to biophotonics and creates new opportunities for rheology in nanoscale environments.
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Sun , Q , Dholakia , K & Greentree , A D 2021 , ' Optical forces and torques on eccentric nanoscale core–shell particles ' , ACS Photonics , vol. 8 , no. 4 , pp. 1103–1111 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01825
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ACS Photonics
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01825
ISSN
2330-4022
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 American Chemical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01825.
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Funding: Q.S. and A.D.G. acknowledge support of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP; Grant No. CE140100003), K.D. acknowledges the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant EP/P030017/1), Q.S. acknowledges the support of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Grant No. DE150100169), and A.D.G. acknowledges the support of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (Grant No. FT160100357). This research was undertaken with the assistance of resources from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia), an NCRIS enabled capability supported by the Australian Government (Grant No. LE160100051).
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URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11301
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25019

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