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dc.contributor.authorLee, Hyeonwoo
dc.contributor.authorPartanen, Mikko
dc.contributor.authorLee, Mingyu
dc.contributor.authorJeong, Sunghoon
dc.contributor.authorLee, Hyeung Joo
dc.contributor.authorKim, Kwanpyo
dc.contributor.authorRyu, Wonhyoung
dc.contributor.authorDholakia, Kishan
dc.contributor.authorOh, Kyunghwan
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-12T14:31:11Z
dc.date.available2022-04-12T14:31:11Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-07
dc.identifier278794113
dc.identifier4ec4e385-ade4-4468-8ae9-e174d0f82ab2
dc.identifier000770349200001
dc.identifier85127918394
dc.identifier.citationLee , H , Partanen , M , Lee , M , Jeong , S , Lee , H J , Kim , K , Ryu , W , Dholakia , K & Oh , K 2022 , ' A laser-driven optical atomizer : photothermal generation and transport of zeptoliter-droplets along a carbon nanotube deposited hollow optical fiber ' , Nanoscale , vol. 14 , no. 13 , 14 , pp. 5138-5146 . https://doi.org/10.1039/d1nr06211een
dc.identifier.issn2040-3364
dc.identifier.otherJisc: 186546
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/25175
dc.descriptionThis work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2019R1A2C2011293) and University of Sydney – Yonsei University Partnership Collaboration Awards. M. P. acknowledges European Union's Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) individual fellowship under Contract No. 846218. KD thanks the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for funding (grant EP/P030017/1).en
dc.description.abstractFrom mechanical syringes to electric field-assisted injection devices, precise control of liquid droplet generation has been sought after, and the present state-of-the-art technologies have provided droplets ranging from nanoliter to subpicoliter volume sizes. In this study, we present a new laser-driven method to generate liquid droplets with a zeptoliter volume, breaking the fundamental limits of previous studies. We guided an infrared laser beam through a hollow optical fiber (HOF) with a ring core whose end facet was coated with single-walled carbon nanotubes. The laser light was absorbed by this nanotube film and efficiently generated a highly localized microring heat source. This evaporated the liquid inside the HOF, which rapidly recondensed into zeptoliter droplets in the surrounding air at room temperature. We spectroscopically confirmed the chemical structures of the liquid precursor maintained in the droplets by atomizing dye-dissolved glycerol. Moreover, we explain the fundamental physical principles as well as functionalities of the optical atomizer and perform a detailed characterization of the droplets. Our approach has strong prospects for nanoscale delivery of biochemical substances in minuscule zeptoliter volumes.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofNanoscaleen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectACen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleA laser-driven optical atomizer : photothermal generation and transport of zeptoliter-droplets along a carbon nanotube deposited hollow optical fiberen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEPSRCen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sir James Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosisen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biophotonicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complexen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1039/d1nr06211e
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/P030017/1en


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