Optofluidics articles from across Nature Portfolio

Current imaging flow cytometry approaches remain limited in their ability to reveal subcellular information with high-resolution and instrumental simplicity. Here, the authors present a light-field flow cytometer capable of high-content, multi-color imaging of cells with high-resolution in 3D.

Feedback control of optically generated flows enables precise, dynamic particle assembly and complex micro-robotics.

Here the authors experimentally realize the electrical tuning of branched flow of light in nematic liquid crystals. The statistical properties and the polarization effect of the branched flow of light in the film are systematically studied adding fundamental insights on branched flow of light.

Material characterization of liquids in extreme thermodynamic conditions is a challenging technical problem. Brillouin scattering metrology in an optical fibre design with a sealed liquid core now enables spatially resolved temperature and pressure measurements, using carbon disulfide as an example.

We propose an innovative optofluidic system, employing an all-dielectric quasi-BIC metasurface, that achieves subwavelength scale optical heating and fluid motion control via precisely tuning wavelengths within several nanometers range. Long-range transport and rapid assembly of nanoparticles are presented.

Quasi-isothermal optofluidic streaming is enabled by symmetry-correlated laser scan sequences.