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20182026
most citedLight Programmable Micro/Nanomotors with Optically Tunable In-Phase Electric Polarization

56 citations · 56 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Multistable energy landscapes for adaptive microscopic machines

Melody Xuan Lim, Zexi Liang, Gabriel Alkuino +5

The past few years have seen great strides in our ability to build synthetic microscopic machines. However, the function of such machines is often controlled directly by externally…

physics.app-ph2025

Scalable, Non-contact Determination of Electric Properties of Nanostructures via Electro-Rotation in Water Solution

Yun Huang, Kai Xu, Zexi Liang +3

Breakthroughs in nanotechnology have enabled the large-scale fabrication of nanoparticles with varied compositions and structures. Yet, evaluating their electrical conductivities r…

physics.app-ph2020

Design and Modeling of a Versatile Micro/Nanomotor Propulsion System by Light-Guided Dielectrophoresis

Zexi Liang, Donglei Fan

To develop active materials that can efficiently respond to external stimuli with designed mechanical motions is one of the major obstacles that have hindered the realization of na…

physics.app-ph2019★ 56 cited

Light Programmable Micro/Nanomotors with Optically Tunable In-Phase Electric Polarization

Zexi Liang, Daniel Teal, Donglei Fan

To develop active nanomaterials that can instantly respond to external stimuli with designed mechanical motions is an important step towards the realization of nanomachines and nan…

physics.app-ph2018

Visible -Light-Gated Reconfigurable Rotation of Nanomotors in Electric Fields

Zexi Liang, Donglei, Fan

Highly efficient and widely applicable working mechanisms that allow nanomaterials and devices to respond to external stimuli with controlled mechanical motions could make far-reac…