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  <body><![CDATA[<p><strong>School of Physics Colloquium: Prof. Michelle Wang, Cornell University</strong><br /></p><p>Optical trapping has been proven to be a powerful manipulation and measurement technique widely used in the biological and materials sciences.&nbsp;&nbsp;A prominent example of the application of optical trapping techniques is in the study of single biological molecules, in which the mechanical behavior of a molecule can be investigated.&nbsp; These techniques make it possible to disrupt protein complexes with piconewton forces and track motor proteins with nanometer and millisecond resolution.&nbsp; However, conventional optical trapping instruments are only capable of manipulating one molecule at a time, which limits their throughput.&nbsp;&nbsp;Miniaturizing optical trap instruments onto optofluidic platforms holds promise for high-throughput lab-on-a-chip applications.&nbsp;&nbsp;We have been developing novel nanophotonic platforms for precision manipulation and measurements of a bio-molecular array.&nbsp; In addition to on-chip optical trapping, we demonstrate that such a platform can be integrated with fluorescence and laminar flow cells, substantially enhancing its utility.&nbsp; We anticipate that this approach&nbsp;will make single molecule measurements broadly available.</p>]]></body>
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