Trapping various particles (IMAGE)

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Trapping various particles

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Researchers developed contour-tracking optical tweezers that can trap large and irregularly shaped particles such as the ones pictured. The blue dots show illumination points while the red dots depict the contours extracted by the new method.

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Takahashi-Michihata Lab, The University of Tokyo

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