{"id":241039,"date":"2023-05-05T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241039"},"modified":"2023-05-05T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:11:08","slug":"new-way-to-track-particles-in-soft-colloids-using-optical-tweezers-can-be-applied-in-targeted-drug-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-way-to-track-particles-in-soft-colloids-using-optical-tweezers-can-be-applied-in-targeted-drug-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"New way to track particles in soft colloids using optical tweezers can be applied in targeted drug delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>New way to track particles in soft colloids using optical tweezers can be applied in targeted drug delivery<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on <b>5th May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have found a way to track minute clay particle movements within soft clay colloids using Optical Tweezers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Optical Tweezers?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optical tweezers are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to hold and move microscopic and sub-microscopic objects like atoms, nanoparticles and droplets in a manner similar to tweezers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1987, Arthur Ashkin succeeded in capturing living bacteria without harming them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Applications: <\/b>Optical tweezers are used in:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>1)<\/strong> biology and medicine (for example to grab and hold a single bacterium, a cell like a blood cell, or a molecule like DNA),\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2)<\/strong> nanoengineering and nanochemistry (to study and build materials from single molecules),\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>3)<\/strong> quantum optics and quantum optomechanics (to study the interaction of single particles with light).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Nobel Prize in Physics: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The development of optical tweezing by Arthur Ashkin was lauded with the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cNew way to track particles in soft colloids using optical tweezers can be applied in targeted drug delivery\u201d published in PIB on 5th May 2023 What is the News? Scientists have found a way to track minute clay particle movements within soft clay colloids using Optical Tweezers.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-way-to-track-particles-in-soft-colloids-using-optical-tweezers-can-be-applied-in-targeted-drug-delivery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New way to track particles in soft colloids using optical tweezers can be applied in targeted drug delivery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-241039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}