As science and technology go nano, scientists search for new tools to manipulate, observe and modify the ābuilding blocksā of matter at the nanometer scale. With this in mind, the recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology in which ICFO researchers demonstrate for the first time the ability to use near-field optical tweezers to trap a nano-size object and manipulate it in the 3 dimensions of space, is an exciting achievement.
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Optical nano-tweezers take over the control of nano-objects
