Elena Pandres and Matthew Crane’s Nature Communications article “Optically Oriented Attachment of Nanoscale Metal-Semiconductor Heterostructures in Organic Solvents via Photonic Nanosoldering” was recently highlighted in UW News. The article, titled “Light-based ‘tractor beam’ assembles materials at the nanoscale“, describes how focused laser light can be used to align, assemble, and weld nanoscale building blocks, and discusses the potential implications of this work.
You can read the UW News Release here: https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/11/04/light-based-tractor-beam/