Controlled three-dimensional manipulation of vanadium oxide nanotubes with optical tweezers

Jose Luis Hernández-Pozos; Woei Ming Lee; Liliana Irais Vera-Robles; Antonio Campero; Kishan Dholakia

doi:10.1063/1.3039407

Controlled three-dimensional manipulation of vanadium oxide nanotubes with optical tweezers

Jose Luis Hernández-Pozos, Woei Ming Lee, Liliana Irais Vera-Robles, Antonio Campero, Kishan Dholakia

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We present a direct nanotube-microsphere tagging technique for the controlled three-dimensional (3D) manipulation and transportation of vanadium oxide nanotubes (VO_x -NTs) with optical tweezers. The high scattering and absorptive nature of the VO_x -NTs preclude the 3D optical trapping of such nanostructures. VO_x -NTs are adhered to 3-aminopropyl-triethoxysilane functionalized silica microspheres, which act as handles for indirectly manipulating and transporting the nanotubes in three dimensions with optical tweezers. The optical tweezers can also operate as optical scissors that can remove the dielectric handles and trim these nanotubes. This technique may be extended to the optical manipulation of nanotubes of any material.

Original language	English
Article number	243107
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	93
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3039407
Publication status	Published - 2008

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The authors would like to thank Pascal Andre for use of equipment for functionalization process. L. I. Vera-Robles would like to thank the Mexican Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) for the scholarship. J. L. Hernández-Pozos acknowledges the support from the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias and the Royal Society (U.K.). K.D. is a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award holder. We thank the EPSRC for funding.

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