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ArticleNano letters2025

Sensing Thermophoretic Forces by Nanoplasmonic Actuators with Interferometric Scattering Readout.

Yixin Mei, Aidan Oi, Leslie Velasco, Sonia Zahara, Björn M Reinhard

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Article in Nano letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yixin MeiDepartment of Chemistry and The Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Aidan OiDepartment of Chemistry and The Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Leslie VelascoDepartment of Chemistry and The Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Sonia ZaharaDepartment of Chemistry and The Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0160-5960
Björn M ReinhardDepartment of Chemistry and The Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2550-5331

Funding

Illuminating Dynamic Receptor Clustering in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signal Transduction Pathway Using Plasmon CouplingR01CA138509 · NCI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI Bjoern Markus Reinhard · 2009 to 2026
$5.9M
Interferometric Plasmon Ruler for Elucidating Structural Dynamics on the SingleMolecule LevelR21GM143672 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI REINHARD, BJOERN MARKUS · 2022 to 2023
$436k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA138509NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM143672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) represent nanoscale, optically addressable heat sources whose temperature gradients give rise to thermophoretic forces that can act back on the NPs. Herein we investigate 20 nm Ag NPs bound via molecular tethers to a 20 nm thin Au film as nanoplasmonic actuators that generate a local temperature gradient and simultaneously act as optical sensors of forces that induce their displacement from their equilibrium position. Forces of sufficient magnitude to affect the NP-film distance modulate the interferometric scattering (iSCAT) signal of the individual NPs and become detectable due to the distance-dependent damping of the NP scattering in the vicinity of the metal film. With total incident power densities within a range between 1.40 and 4.80 kW cm

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Force SensorsInterferometric Scattering MicroscopyNanoplasmonicsTethered Nanoparticle MotionThermophoretic Forces

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PMID39690474
PMCPMC12034222

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