Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Ultrafast photomechanical transduction through thermophoretic implosion

  • Nikita Kavokine,
  • Shuangyang Zou,
  • Ruibin Liu,
  • Antoine Niguès,
  • Bingsuo Zou,
  • Lydéric Bocquet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13912-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Here, the authors observe that laser illumination allows to displace a vial of nanoparticle solution over centimetre-scale distances. In order to explain this, they describe a novel mechanism for laser propulsion of a macroscopic object, based on light-induced thermophoresis.