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- Title
Journal club.
- Authors
Wang, Michelle D.
- Abstract
The article discusses how light energy can be used as traps for microscopic particles. This light energy, according to the author, is the same energy that pushes dust particles away from the surface of the sun. Conventional optical traps, moreover, are made using laser beam and microscope. However, biophysicists, including David Grier, create optical traps that depend on the gradient and intensity of the laser's light. This kind of optical trap, according to the author, can be useful for the fields of single-molecule biophysics, cell biology and colloidal physics.
- Subjects
LASERS in biophysics; LASER beams; GRIER, David; OPTICAL instruments; MOLECULAR biology; SCIENTIFIC apparatus &; instruments; MICROSCOPES; BIOPHYSICS; CYTOLOGY
- Publication
Nature, 2008, Vol 454, Issue 7207, p921
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/454921e