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Controlled roll rotation of a microparticle in a hydro-thermophoretic trap

Gokul Nalupurackal1,*, Kingshuk Panja2,*, Snigdhadev Chakraborty1, Srestha Roy1, Jayesh Goswami1, Basudev Roy1,†, and Rajesh Singh2,‡

  • 1Department of Physics, Quantum Centre of Excellence for Diamond and Emergent Materials (QuCenDiEM), IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India
  • 2Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • †basudev@iitm.ac.in
  • ‡rsingh@physics.iitm.ac.in
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Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033005 – Published 5 July, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033005

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in controlling the motion of microparticles inside and outside a focused laser beam. A hydro-thermophoretic trap was recently reported [Nalupurackal et al., Soft Matter 18, 6825 (2022)], which can trap and manipulate microparticles and living cells outside a laser beam. Briefly, a hydro-thermophoretic trap works by the competition between thermoplasmonic flows due to laser heating of a substrate and thermophoresis away from the hotspot of the laser. Here, we extend that work to demonstrate the controlled roll rotation of a microparticle in a hydro-thermophoretic trap using experiments and theory. We experimentally measure the roll angular velocity of the trapped particle. We predict this roll rotation from theoretical computation of the fluid flow. The expression for the angular velocity fits the experimental data. Our method has potential applications in microrheology by employing a different mode of rotation.

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Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033005– Published 5 July, 2023
  • Received 26 April 2023
  • Accepted 12 June 2023
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