Optical Manipulation in Biological World
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2023) | Viewed by 300
Special Issue Editor
Interests: optical tweezer; optical manipulation in vivo; medical microrobot; intelligent optical manipulation; biophotonics
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in optical manipulation have yielded great insights in biological science, from single-molecule trapping and multiple-cell arrangement to the on-demand assembly of multifunctional biophotonic devices with high spatial precision. Benefiting from their noninvasive and noncontact properties, the various forms of optical manipulation have enabled the precise in vitro and in vivo exploration of the biological world, in turn realizing the in situ investigation of biological targets at the single-cell and single-molecule level. This Special Issue aims to publish state-of-the-art original articles and comprehensive reviews covering optical manipulation in the biological world, especially focusing on optically manipulated cells such as functional biophotonic devices and biological exploration in vivo.
The topics that will be covered include (but are not limited to):
- Optical trapping of single molecules.
- Optical manipulation of cell organelles.
- Cell trapping and arrangement.
- Interaction between light and biological tissue.
- Optical force calculation in vivo.
- Optical manipulation of white blood cells.
- Light scattering in biology.
- Assembly of biophotonic devices.
- In vivo optical manipulation.
- Light-driven microrobots.
- Novel optical tweezer technique.
- Optical fiber tweezers.
- Living biological microrobot.
- Optofluidic manipulation.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Xiaoshuai Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- optical manipulation
- in vivo manipulation
- biophotonic device
- cell trapping and assembly
- light-driven microrobot
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