JETP Letters
Optical tweezers and photonic force microscopy
Optical tweezers is the most convenient and widespread technique for spatial localization and manipulation of particles with dimensions of a few microns or less. To date, optical tweezers have developed into a powerful tool in atom optics, statistical physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics.
The principle of optical manipulation is based on the fact that in a non-uniform electromagnetic field, particles with a positive polarisability tend to be localized in regions of maximum field energy density. In optics, it means that particles with a refractive index higher than that of the surrounding medium experience a force directed towards the intensity maximum. In the field of a focused light beam, the intensity is maximal in the waist of the beam and the particles are localized in it. The manipulation of particles can therefore be realized by changing the focal point.
Optical tweezers enable not only the manipulation of nano- and microparticles, but also measurements of forces acting on the microscale. When an external force acts on the trapped particle, its equilibrium position changes so that the trapping force compensates the external one. Its value, therefore, can be obtained as a result of determining the spatial position of the particle inside the trap. The mapping technique based on this principle is known as photonic force microscopy.
RBC aggregation studied by double trap optical tweezers
Hemorheological properties of blood are mainly determined by rheology of red blood cells (RBCs) as the main blood fraction. RBCs fundamental property is their ability to aggregate, which is a reversible process of mutual attraction between cell membranes. Characteristic RBC rouleaux is shown in Fig.1
Formation of RBC rouleaux exerts a considerable influence on the hydrodynamic parameters in venules, promotes the displacement of leukocytes toward the vessel wall and therefore allows them to perform their protective function.
We use double trap optical tweezers for the direct measurements of aggregation forces in piconewton range between red blood cells (RBCs) in pair rouleau under physiological conditions.
We are also involved into the RBCs elastic properties research offering a novel method for precise monitoring of red blood cells viscoelastic properties using active rheology approach combined with the forced RBC edges vibration analysis.
Magnetic microbeads interaction studied in optical tweezers
Magnetic liquids, which are suspensions of magnetic microparticles, have been actively studied in recent decades. These suspensions have numerous applications starting from the production of magnetic memory devices to cancer treatment by the hyperthermia method. Pair magnetic interaction forces on the micro-scales are as small as hundreds of fN, but play an important role in determination of magnetic fluids properties. Optical tweezers technique is a unique approach to study these magnetic forces.
Measurement of interaction force between two individual microparticles
In experiments two individual magnetic microbeads are localized in two independent optical traps. Magnetic moments are induced in the microbeads in presence of external magnetic field and microbeads magnetically interact with each other. Magnetic interaction leads to the displacement of the microbeads from the optical trap centers. In this equilibrium position interaction force is equal to optical trap restoring force, which allows measuring the value of magnetic interaction force directly, since the optical trapping force is known. Interaction force depends on the microparticle magnetic moments, so there is an ability to obtain the magnetic moment values for the individual microparticles with precision of fAm2 .
Brownian motion of two magnetic microparticles
Microbeads in optical tweezers are dipped in liquid and undergo Brownian motion. Magnetic interaction makes the motion of microparticles more coupled, more correlated. It was observed that the cross-correlation functions of microbeads Brownian displacements considerably change in the presence of an external magnetic field. The changes in the cross-correlation functions are dependent on the values and directions of magnetic interaction forces. In case of attraction force between particles - the cross-correlation function values decrease, which means that the motion of particles becomes anti-correlated and the particles move in opposite directions. When repulsive force acts between particles - the cross-correlation values increase. The particles move in the same directions and their motion becomes correlated. Such correlations in particle motion considerably affect various processes in magnetic suspensions, such as magnetic particle aggregation, magnetic fluid flow, and magnetic field induced structure formation.
Synchronization in motion of two magnetically bounded oscillators - active microrheology approach
Effect of correlations in motion magnetic microbeads can be also detected using active microrheology method. In this case the position of one of the optical traps was oscillating and the trapped magnetic particle moved harmonically. Magnetic interaction force acting on the second particle depended on the distance between particles, so this force was harmonically modulated, forcing the second particle to move periodically too. When particles are close to each other, their motion is strongly synchronized, and this synhronization can be seen with the naked eye.
Publications
Articles
- "Optical Trapping and Moving of Microparticles by the Near Field of Bloch Surface Waves in Polymer Waveguides"1194261–2662024
- "Detection of Brownian Torque in a Magnetically-Driven Rotating Microsystem"
Scientific Reports
6212122016 - "Normal and system lupus erythematosus red blood cell interactions studied by double trap optical tweezers: direct measurements of aggregation forces"
Journal of Biomedical Optics
170250012012 - "Optical tweezers study of red blood cell aggregation and disaggregation in plasma and protein solutions"
Journal of Biomedical Optics
210350012016 - "Cellular viscoelasticity probed by active rheology in optical tweezers"
Journal of Biomedical Optics
171015102012 - "Near-field probing of Bloch surface waves in a dielectric multilayer using photonic force microscopy"
Journal of the Optical Society of America B
331120-11272016 - "Probing of Pair Interaction of Magnetic Microparticles with Optical Tweezers"
JETP Letters
955602012 - "Glycoprotein IIB-IIIA inhibitor, monafram decelerate the early phase of red blood cells aggregation"
Journal of Cellular Biotechnology
215-222016 - "Directional Optical Sorting of Silicon Nanoparticles"
ACS Photonics
42312–23192017 - "Thermophoresis-Assisted Microscale Magnus Effect in Optical Traps"
JETP Letters
11011750-7542019 - "Trap Position Control in the Vicinity of Reflecting Surfaces in Optical Tweezers"
JETP Letters
98644–6472013 - "Optical Coherence Microscopy Сombined with Optical Tweezers for Studying Cellular Mechanics"
Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute
475136–1392020 - "Spontaneous Light Emission Assisted by Mie Resonances in Diamond Nanoparticles"
Nano Letters
2110127−101322021 - "An effect of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors 2 on the kinetics of red blood cells aggregation"
Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation
57291–3022014 - "Single-cell all-optical coherence elastography with optical tweezers"
Biomedical Optics Express
13114-252022 - "CaCO3 Nanoparticles Coated with Alternating Layers of Poly-LArginine Hydrochloride and Fe3O4 Nanoparticles as Navigable Drug Carriers and Hyperthermia Agents"
ACS Applied Nano Materials
52994−30062022 - "Bifunctional Magnetite–Gold Nanoparticles for Magneto-Mechanical Actuation and Cancer Cell Destruction"
Magnetochemistry
81852022 - "Direct measurements of magnetic interaction-induced cross-correlations of two microparticles in Brownian motion"
Scientific Reports
5104912015 - "Synthesis of Magneto-Controllable Polymer Nanocarrier Based on Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic Acid) for Doxorubicin Immobilization"
Polymers
1454402022 - "Composite SERS-based satellites navigated by optical tweezers for single cell analysis"
Analyst
1404981-49862015 - "Ag2O-Containing Biocidal Interpolyelectrolyte Complexes on Glass Surfaces—Adhesive Properties of the Coatings"
Polymers
1546902023 - "Direct measurements of forces induced by Bloch surface waves in a one-dimensional photonic crystal"
Optics Letters
404883-48862015 - "Magnetically navigated microbubbles coated with albumin/polyarginine and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles"
Biomaterials Advances
1582137592024 - "Photonic force microscopy of surface electromagnetic waves in a one-dimensional photonic crystal"
SPIE Proceedings
95489548102015 - "Functionalization and magnetonavigation of T-lymphocytes functionalized via nanocomposite capsules targeting with electromagnetic tweezers"
Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine
571027422024
Conference abstracts
- "Optical forces induced by Bloch surface waves on a one-dimensional photonic crystal"
Days on Diffraction
2015 - "RBC elastic properties studied by means of active rheology approach"
Proc. of SPIE
845884580T2012 - "Correlation function analysis of optically trapped paramagnetic microparticles in external magnetic field"
Proc. of SPIE
845884580G2012 - "Photonic-force microscopy of radiation forces generated by surface mode of one-dimensional photonic crystals"
SPIE Photonics Europe 2014
9126-262014 - "Influence of thermal noise to magnetic microparticle rotation in optical tweezers"Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism (MISM – 2014)Moscow, Russia2014
- "Light scattering and laser manipulation in the studies of red blood cells microrheology "
Laser Applications in Life Sciences LALS 2014
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