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Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2023
Applicant:

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);

Inventor:

Justus C. Ndukaife, Nashville, TN (US);

Assignee:

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

A nanotweezer and method of trapping and dynamic manipulation thereby are provided. The nanotweezer comprises a first metastructure including a first substrate, a first electrode, and a plurality of plasmonic nanostructures arranged in an array, and a trapping region laterally displaced from the array; a second metastructure including a second substrate and a second electrode; a microfluidic channel between the first metastructure and the second metastructure; a voltage source configured to selectively apply an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a light source configured to selectively apply an excitation light to the microfluidic channel at a first location corresponding to the array, thereby to trap a nanoparticle at a second location corresponding to the trapping region.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Ndukaife, Justus. (2024). Trapping and manipulation of nanoparticles with light and electric field (U.S. Patent No. 12176121). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12176121

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