研究领域
Manipulation by Light
Optical tweezers, a Noble-Prize-winning invention by Arthur Ashkin, are widely used for the remote manipulation and study of biological entities. We have advanced this technology by developing a series of optical manipulation techniques that overcome existing limitations. Our improvements offer expanded working modes, versatility across different environments, and the ability to target a diverse range of materials. Additionally, our techniques require less optical power, feature a simple optical setup, and are user-friendly. These innovations push the frontiers of knowledge in life sciences and nanoscience, enabling the development of nano-architected materials, lab-on-a-chip devices, and automation systems for applications in health, information technology, energy, and environmental sustainability.
Measurement with Light
We leverage dual-faceted optical manipulation - manipulation by light and manipulation of light - in optical spectroscopy and microscopy to reveal biological structures and functions with high sensitivity, resolution, and speed. Standard optical microscopy, enhanced with optical rotation and machine learning, enables volumetric imaging and accurate classification of organisms. An adhesion frequency assay utilizing optical manipulation offers comprehensive profiling of cell-cell interactions. Chiroptical spectroscopy, combined with optical manipulation, allows for label-free ultrasensitive enantiodiscrimination of chiral molecules. These advancements push the boundaries of optical measurement, opening new avenues for life sciences, space life detection, pharmaceutical quality control, and disease diagnosis.
Manipulation of Light
When discrete nanostructures are arranged into nano-architected materials such as metamaterials, they exhibit a plethora of novel optical phenomena, enabling unprecedented manipulation and utilization of light. We focus on creating these nano-architected materials to improve optical sensing, photochemical reactions, solar energy conversion, passive radiative cooling, optical computing, and quantum communication. Drawing inspiration from nature and employing machine learning techniques, we design nano-architected materials precisely customized for targeted applications. We develop advanced optical techniques to enable green manufacturing of these nano-architectures on demand and to measure their properties at both the single-nanostructure and ensemble levels.
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C. Liu, Z. Huang, S. Huang, Y. Zhang, B. Li, F. Nan, and Y. B. Zheng. Robotic Nanomanipulation Based on Spatiotemporal Modulation of Optical Gradients. ACS Nano 18 (2024) 19391-19400. Featured as a Front Cover Article;
A. Swain, P. S. Kollipara, and Y. B. Zheng. Bubble-Printed Microscale Silver Thermistors. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 (2024) 7316-7322. Featured as a Supplementary Journal Cover Article;
R. Unni, M. Zhou, P. R. Wiecha, and Y. B. Zheng. Advancing Materials Science through Next-Generation Machine Learning. Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 30 (2024) 101157.
Y. Kim, K. Yao, C. Ponce, and Y. B. Zheng. Optical Actuation of Nanoparticle-Loaded Liquid-Liquid Interfaces for Active Photonics. ACS Nano 18 (2024) 15627-15637.
J. Li, R. Yang, K. Yao, Y. Huang, Y. Rho, D. E. Fan, Y. B. Zheng, and C. P. Grigoropoulos. Near-Field Nanoimaging of Colloidal Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Waveguides. Advanced Functional Materials 34 (2024) 2312127.
Z. Chen and Y. B. Zheng. Persistent and Responsive Collective Motion with Adaptive Time Delay. Science Advances 10 (2024) eadk3914. Featured by CSE; Nanowerk; TechXplore; Mirage News; EurekAlert!; ScienceDaily; Knowridge; Space War; Futurity; IoT World Today; Industry News USA; ThePrint;
J. Li, D. Zhang, Z. Guo, Z. Chen, X. Jiang, J. M. Larson, H. Zhu, T. Zhang, Y. Gu, B. Blankenship, M. Chen, Z. Wu, S. Huang, R. Kostecki, A. M. Minor, C. P. Grigoropoulos, D. Akinwande, M. Terrones, J. M. Redwing, H. Li, and Y. B. Zheng. Light-Driven C-H Activation Mediated by 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. Nature Communications 15 (2024) 5546. (arXiv); Nature Portfolio Communities "Behind the Paper"; Featured by Phys.org; Mirage; Nanowerk; MSN; The Science Times; Tech Explorist; Knowridge; Interesting Engineering; Futurity; Optics; Earth; Anthropocene; AZO optics; Hackaday; OPN; Youtube;
P. S. Kollipara, Z. Wu, K. Yao, D. Lin, Z. Ju, X. Zhang, T. Jiang, H. Ding, J. Fang, J. Li, B. A. Korgel, J. M. Redwing, G. Yu, and Y. B. Zheng. Three-Dimensional Optothermal Manipulation of Light-Absorbing Particles in Phase-Change Gel Media. ACS Nano 18 (2024) 8062-8072. Featured by Nanowerk;
K. Yao, J. Fang, T. Jiang, A. F. Briggs, A. M. Skipper, Y. Kim, M. A. Belkin, B. A. Korgel, S. R. Bank, and Y. B. Zheng. Tuning Multipolar Mie Scattering of Particles on a Dielectric-Covered Mirror. ACS Nano 18 (2024) 16545-16555. (arXiv); Featured as a Supplementary Journal Cover Article;
Z. Chen, H. Ding, P. S. Kollipara, J. Li, and Y. B. Zheng. Synchronous and Fully Steerable Active Particle Systems for Enhanced Mimicking of Collective Motion in Nature. Advanced Materials 36 (2024) 2304759. Selected as Editor's Choice; Featured as Frontispiece; Featured by Nanowerk;
M. Herber, A. J. Amaya, N. Giese, B. B. Rajeeva, Y. B. Zheng, and E. H. Hill. Bubble Printing of Layered Silicates: Surface Chemistry Effects and Picomolar Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Sensing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 (2023) 55022-55029.
J. Fang, K. Yao, M. Wang, Z. Yu, T. Zhang, T. Jiang, S. Huang, B. A. Korgel, M. Terrones, A. Alù, and Y. B. Zheng. Observation of Room-Temperature Exciton-Polariton Emission from Wide-Ranging 2D Semiconductors Coupled with a Broadband Mie Resonator. Nano Letters 23 (2023) 9803-9810.
Y. Kim and Y. B. Zheng. Advancing Optothermal Manipulation: Decoupling Temperature and Flow Fields in Quasi-Isothermal Microstreaming. Light: Science & Applications 12 (2023) 211.
P. S. Kollipara and Y. B. Zheng. Breaking Boundaries in Optical Manipulation: Beyond Nobel-Prize-Winning Tweezers. Photonics Insights 2 (2023) C04.
A. Swain, Z. Chen, Y. Liu, Z. Wu, and Y. B. Zheng. Large-Area Ultrathin Moiré Chiral Metamaterials by Thermal-Tape-Transfer Printing. ACS Photonics 10 (2023) 1225-1231.
J. Fang, S. Huang, K. Yao, T. Zhang, M. Terrones, W. Huang, Y. Pan, and Y. B. Zheng. Tunable Couplings of Photons with Bright and Dark Excitons in Monolayer Semiconductors on Plasmonic-Nanosphere-on-Mirror Cavities. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127 (2023) 9105-9112.
P. S. Kollipara, X. Li, J. Li, Z. Chen, H. Ding, S. Huang, Z. Qin, and Y. B. Zheng. Hypothermal Opto-Thermophoretic Tweezers. Nature Communications 14 (2023) 5133. [Research Square]; Nature Portfolio Communities "Behind the Paper"; Nanowerk; TACC; TMI; CSE; Phys.org; Nanowerk; HPCwire; Newswise; EurekAlert!; Mirage News; Bioengineering.org; Sciencenewsnet; Scienmag; Photonics;
Y. Liu, R. Unni, X. Lou, M. Yang, and Y. B. Zheng. High-Resolution Volumetric Imaging and Classification of Organisms with Standard Optical Microscopy. Nano Letters 23 (2023) 5148-5154.
H. Ding, P. K. Kollipara, K. Yao, Y. Chang, D. J. Dickinson, and Y. B. Zheng. Multimodal Optothermal Manipulations along Various Surfaces. ACS Nano 17 (2023) 9280-9289.
P. S. Kollipara, Z. Chen, and Y. B. Zheng. Optical Manipulation Heats Up: Present and Future of Optothermal Manipulation. ACS Nano 17 (2023) 7051-7063.
Y. Liu, Z. Wu, D. Armstrong, H. Wolosker, and Y. B. Zheng. Detection and Analysis of Chiral Molecules as Disease Biomarkers. Nature Reviews Chemistry 7 (2023) 355-373. [SharedIt]
H. Ding, Z. Chen, C. Ponce, and Y. B. Zheng. Optothermal Rotation of Micro-/Nano-Objects. Chemical Communications 59 (2023) 2208-2221.
J. Li, K. Yao, Y. Huang, J. Fang, P. S. Kollipara, D. E. Fan, and Y. B. Zheng. Tunable Strong Coupling in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanowires. Advanced Materials 34 (2022) 2200656. Featured on a Frontispiece.
P. S. Kollipara, R. Mahendra, J. Li, and Y. B. Zheng. Bubble-Pen Lithography: Fundamentals and Applications (Nanoscience: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Paul S. Weiss). Aggregate 3 (2022) e189. Featured as Back Cover Article; Outstanding Cover Award;
J. Li, P. S. Kollipara, Y. Liu, K. Yao, Y. Liu, and Y. B. Zheng. Opto-Thermocapillary Nanomotors on Solid Substrates. ACS Nano 16 (2022) 8820-8826. Featured by UT Research; CSE; TMI; Nanowerk; Mirage News; Phys.org; TVN; SwiftTelecast; SciTechDaily; Photonics.com; OPN; TechTimes; UK TodayNews; EurekAlert!; ACS材料X; AzoNano; Tech Briefs; ACS’ Diversity & Inclusion Cover Art Series: Nano Letters Cover;
H. Ding, Z. Chen, P. S. Kollipara, Y. Liu, Y. Kim, S. Huang, and Y. B. Zheng. Programmable Multimodal Optothermal Manipulation of Synthetic Particles and Biological Cells. ACS Nano 16 (2022) 10878-10889. Featured by Nanowerk; ACS材料X;
J. Li, A. Alfares, and Y. B. Zheng. Optical Manipulation and Assembly of Micro/Nanoscale Objects on Solid Substrates. iScience 25 (2022) 104035.
Y. Kim, H. Ding, and Y. B. Zheng. Investigating Water/Oil Interfaces with Opto-Thermophoresis. Nature Communications 13 (2022) 3742. Featured by Nanowerk; x-mol;
J. Fang, K. Yao, T. Zhang, M. Wang, T. Jiang, S. Huang, B. A. Korgel, M. Terrones, A. Alù, and Y. B. Zheng. Room-Temperature Observation of Near-Intrinsic Exciton Linewidth in Monolayer WS2. Advanced Materials 34 (2022) 2108721. Featured as a Frontispiece. Featured by MaterialsViews;
Y. Liu, H. Ding, J. Li, X. Lou, M. Yang, and Y. B. Zheng. Light-Driven Single-Cell Rotational Adhesion Frequency Assay. eLight 2 (2022) 13. Featured by 中国光学 (as Cover Article)；Light: Science & Applications News & Views; EurekAlert!;
Z. Chen, J. Li, and Y. B. Zheng. Heat-Mediated Optical Manipulation. Chemical Reviews 122 (2022) 3122-3179. Featured by X-mol; Featured as a Supplementary Journal Cover Article.
H. Ding, P. S. Kollipara, Y. Kim, A. Kotnala, J. Li, Z. Chen, and Y. B. Zheng. Universal Optothermal Micro/Nanoscale Rotors. Science Advances 8 (2022) eabn8498. (also see In Review); Featured by Phys.org; Nanowerk; x-mol;
J. Li and Y. B. Zheng. Optothermally Assembled Nanostructures. Accounts of Materials Research 2 (2021) 352-363. Featured as a Supplementary Journal Cover Article.
J. Li, Z. Chen, Y. Liu, P. S. Kollipara, Y. Feng, Z. Zhang, and Y. B. Zheng. Opto-Refrigerative Tweezers. Science Advances 7 (2021) eabh1101. Featured by UT News; Eurekalert!; Bioengineer; ScienMag; Phys.org; ForbesAlert; Nanotechnology Now; ScienceDaily; AzoOptics; SciTechDaily; Sina; Sohu; Nanowerk; Optics.org; x-mol; Explica; Photonics; Physics World; Zhihu;
K. Yao and Y. B. Zheng. Controlling the Polarization of Chiral Dipolar Emission with a Spherical Dielectric Nanoantenna. The Journal of Chemical Physics 155 (2021) 224110.
S. Huang, J. Li, J. Fang, H. Ding, W. Huang, X. Zhao, and Y. B. Zheng. Self-Limiting Opto-Electrochemical Thinning of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 (2021) 58966-58973.
R. Unni, K. Yao, X. Han, M. Zhou, and Y. B. Zheng. A Mixture-Density-Based Tandem Optimization Network for On-Demand Inverse Design of Thin-Film High Reflectors. Nanophotonics 10 (2021) 4057-4065.
X. Peng, A. Kotnala, B. B. Rajeeva, M. Wang, K. Yao, N. Bhatt, D. Penley, and Y. B. Zheng. Plasmonic Nanotweezers and Nanosensors for Point-of-Care Applications. Advanced Optical Materials 9 (2021) 2100050. Featured as a Back Cover Article.
A. Kotnala, H. Ding, and Y. B. Zheng. Enhancing Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy with Simple and Robust Hybrid Nanoapertures. ACS Photonics 8 (2021) 1673-1682.
J. T. Fourkas, J. Gao, Z. Han, H. Liu, B. Marmiroli, M. J. Naughton, J. S. Petersen, Y. Sun, A. V. Pret, and Y. B. Zheng. Grand Challenges in Nanofabrication: There Remains Plenty of Room at the Bottom. Frontiers in Nanotechnology 3 (2021) 700849.
Y. Liu, Z. Wu, P. Kollipara, R. Montellano, K. Sharma, and Y. B. Zheng. Label-Free Ultrasensitive Detection of Abnormal Chiral Metabolites in Diabetes. ACS Nano 15 (2021) 6448-6456. Featured by Nanowerk; ME; CSE; Chemistry World;
Z. Chen, P. S. Kollipara, H. Ding, A. Pughazhendi, and Y. B. Zheng. Liquid Optothermoelectrics: Fundamentals and Applications. Langmuir 37 (2021) 1315-1336. (Invited Feature Article). Featured as a Front Cover Article.
M. L. De Marco, T. Jiang, J. Fang, S. Lacomme, Y. B. Zheng, A. Baron, B. A. Korgel, P. Barois, G. L. Drisko, C. Aymonier. Broadband Forward Light Scattering by Architectural Design of Core-Shell Silicon Particles. Advanced Functional Materials 31 (2021) 2100915.
K. Yao and Y. B. Zheng. Directional Light Emission by Electric and Magnetic Dipoles Near a Nanosphere: An Analytical Approach Based on the Generalized Mie Theory. Optics Letters 46 (2021) 302-305.
J. Fang, M. Wang, K. Yao, T. Zhang, A. Krasnok, T. Jiang, J. Choi, E. Kahn, B. A. Korgel, M. Terrones, X. Li, A. Alù, and Y. B. Zheng. Directional Modulation of Exciton Emission Using Single Dielectric Nanospheres. Advanced Materials 33 (2021) 2007236. (arXiv) Featured as an Inside Front Cover Article. Featured by x-mol;
J. Fang, A. Swain, R. Unni, and Y. B. Zheng. Decoding Optical Data with Machine Learning. Laser & Photonics Reviews 15 (2021) 2000422. (First published online: 23 December 2020). Featured as a Back Cover Article.
Y. Kim, J. Gonzales, and Y. B. Zheng. Sensitivity-Enhancing Strategies in Optical Biosensing. Small 17 (2021) 2004988. Featured as a Back Cover Article.
J. Li, M. Wang, Z. Wu, H. Li, G. Hu, T. Jiang, J. Guo, Y. Liu, K. Yao, Z. Chen, J. Fang, D. L. Fan, B. A. Korgel, A. Alù, and Y. B. Zheng. Tunable Chiral Optics in All-Solid-Phase Reconfigurable Dielectric Nanostructures. Nano Letters 21 (2021) 973-979. Featured as a Front Cover Article. Featured by Nanowerk; x-mol;
H. Wang, B.-B. Xu, Y.-L. Zhang, P. S. Kollipara, S. Liu, L. Lin, Q.-D. Chen, Y. B. Zheng, and H.-B. Sun. Light-Driven Magnetic Encoding for Hybrid Magnetic Micromachines. Nano Letters 21 (2021) 1628-1635. Featured by Nanowerk;
H. Ding, P. S. Kollipara, L. Lin, and Y. B. Zheng. Atomistic Modeling and Rational Design of Optothermal Tweezers for Targeted Applications. Nano Research 14 (2021) 295-303. (First published online: 01 October 2020). Featured as a Back Cover Article.
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