• DocumentCode
    1771772
  • Title

    Optical thermophoresis for the manipulation and detection of biomolecules

  • Author

    Li-Hsien Yu ; Yih-Fan Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We use thermophoresis to accumulate and quantify biomolecules under a laser-induced temperature gradient. As biomolecules accumulate at the heated region, the concentration of the molecules can be determined based on the level of accumulation.
  • Keywords
    biochemistry; biothermics; molecular biophysics; biomolecule detection; biomolecule manipulation; heated region; laser-induced temperature gradient; molecule concentration; optical thermophoresis; DNA; Fluorescence; Gold; Heating; Molecular biophysics; Nanoparticles; Optical buffering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989598