www.advmat.de By Randall M. Erb, Nathan J. Jenness,* Robert L. Clark, and Benjamin B. Yellen Janus particles generally refer to a class of colloids with two dissimilar faces having unique material properties.[1] The spherical asymmetry associated with Janus particles is the key to realizing many commercial applications, including electrophoretic displays,[2,3] nanosviscometers,[4] and self-propelling micromachines.[5] These diverse functionalities were accomplished by using an external electric or magnetic field to control the particle orientation,[6–8] and in the process, modulate its reflectivity, hydrodynamic mobility, or direction of motion, respectively. However, these same asymmetries can interfere with optical trapping techniques that are used to control the translational degrees of freedom of a particle.[9] Optical fields present an effective method for controlling the three translational degrees of freedom for particles ranging from tens of nanometers[10] to micrometers in size.[11–14] Previously, optical fields have been used in combination with magnetic fields to control four degrees of freedom of an asymmetric particle or particle aggregate.[15–18] To achieve five or more degrees of freedom, magnetic Janus particles can theoretically be used; however, none so far have been stable in an optical trap. Controlling all six degrees of freedom of Janus particles, including three translational and three rotational, would open up new applications not only in biophysical force and torsion measurements, but also in microfluidics and material selfassembly. Here we report on a new type of spherical Janus that can be manipulated by a combination of optical and magnetic fields. We demonstrate the ability to directly control five degrees of freedom of the particle’s motion (three translational and two orientational) while constraining the final sixth degree of freedom. Ultimately, this demonstration represents the most control ever achieved over freely suspended spherical colloidal particles and opens up many exciting applications; the most obvious being the exertion of torsional and linear forces on biomolecules. The main achievement reported here was to develop a method of [*] Dr. N. J. Jenness, Dr. R. M. Erb, Prof. B. B. Yellen Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems Duke University 27708 Durham, North Carolina (USA) E-mail: [email protected] Prof. R. L. Clark Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Rochester 14627 Rochester, New York (USA) DOI: 10.1002/adma.200900892 Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 1–5 Final page numbers not assigned COMMUNICATION Towards Holonomic Control of Janus Particles in Optomagnetic Traps synthesizing magnetically anisotropic Janus particles that are also compatible with conventional optical trapping systems. We developed a novel lithographic technique for forming so-called ‘‘dot’’ Janus particles, which have a metallic coating covering <20% of their surface area. The advantage of this approach is that the dot Janus particles behave more like normal dielectric particles in an optical trap, while also responding to magnetic forces and torques produced by an external magnetic field. Purely dielectric and metallic Mie and Rayleigh particles have been optically trapped using a variety of techniques. Both dielectric microparticles and nanoparticles can be trapped in three dimensions with a high degree of spatial control.[11–13] Metallic nanoparticles can also be trapped in three dimensions because scattering from metallic and dielectric particles are similar in this size regime.[19] However, metallic microparticles can only be controlled in two dimensions, due to considerations previously documented by others.[20–23] For anisotropic Janus particles, such as dielectric particles that are partially covered by metal, the trapping stability in a focused optical beam depends to a great extent on the degree of metal coverage of the particle surface. Here we propose a general explanation for why optical trapping is more easily accomplished with dot Janus particles than with half-coated Janus particles. In the Mie size regime, where the particle diameter is large compared with the trapping wavelength, l, the momentum imparted by a focused optical beam can be described using geometric ray optics following Ashkin’s line of reasoning.[24] In brief, each light ray refracts and reflects at the particle/fluid interface according to Snell’s law, and the momentum change between the incident ray and the refracted/reflected ray is summed over all incident rays to determine the net force on the particle. Typically, the net force is artificially divided into a gradient force, arising from refraction through the particle, and a scattering force, arising from reflection at the particle surface. The gradient force tends to pull the particle towards the beam focus, whereas the scattering force tends to push the particle away from the emission source. Figure 1 illustrates the incident light rays a and b refracted through the particle and the gradient forces ~ Fa and ~ Fb imparted on the particle due to each light ray. The ray optics approach reveals the importance of the symmetry of conjugate light rays in an optical trap. As long as the gradient force balances the scattering force, ~ Fs , the trap will remain stable. For particles partially coated by reflective metal, the symmetry of this process may be broken, leading to unbalanced torques and forces that will depend on the position and orientation of the particle. As illustrated in Figure 1b, the metal coating inhibits light ß 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 1 COMMUNICATION www.advmat.de 2 focal point. Optical trapping capability should theoretically be improved with dot Janus particles, as illustrated in Figure 1c, because the momentum imbalance on opposing sides of the particle is greatly reduced. There are many methods to fabricate Janus particles including masking,[25] directional evaporation,[7,26] microcontact printing,[27,28] and interfacial fluid techniques.[29–32] Nanometer-size metallic Janus particles have been fabricated using a convective assembly deposiFigure 1. A simplified ray-optics approach is illustrated for optical trapping of a) transparent, b) tion technique[33] followed by metal evaporahalf Janus, and c) dot Janus particles. The smaller magnetic coating of dot Janus particles allows for greater optical transmission through the particle and trapping of the particle near the focal tion or through self-assembled grafting techniques.[34] On the micrometer-size scale, point. Conversely, the metallic coating of half Janus particles leads to larger momentum imbalance on the opposing faces of the particles and hinders its stability near the focal point. metallic Janus particles are most commonly produced by directional metal evaporation onto colloidal monolayers.[7,26] We used variants of this technique to produce both conventional half metallic Janus particles and dot Janus particles. In brief, 10-mm polystyrene particles in ethanol were pipetted onto glass microscope slides, which formed consistent regions of close-packed monolayers upon solvent evaporation (Fig. 2a). A thin 50-nm cobalt layer was directionally evaporated onto the substrate using conventional metal evaporation techniques (Fig. 2b). Next, the substrate was sonicated in water to resuspend the half Janus particles (Fig. 2c). The dot Janus particles are engineered from the same monolayer of particles (Fig. 2a), however, an intermediary step is required to partially mask the region of metal evaporation. This is accomplished by first spinning a 1.5-mm-thick layer of photoresist onto another glass slide. The two slides are pressed firmly together into a sandwich, causing the photoresist to fill the voids between the particles and both slides except in the region where steric forces between the top glass slide and the particles exclude the photoresist. Due to mass balance considerations, it is possible that the photoresist develops cavities in the interparticle regions. In any case, a uniform coating of Figure 2. Techniques for fabricating half Janus and dot Janus particles are illustrated. In both the interfaces was reliably formed enabling processes a monolayer of 10 mm fluorescent polystyrene particles are convectively assembled on protection of the particles by the photoresist a glass slide. Evaporation of cobalt onto the colloidal monolayers is typically used to produce half Janus particles, which are subsequently released by sonication. Dot Janus particles are produced except at the contact points between the by pressing the particles into photoresist in order to protect a larger region of the particle. Cobalt particles and the top slide. The sandwich is is evaporated onto the photoresist film, followed by development of the remaining photoresist cured by heating the sample at 90 8C for 2 min, and sonication, in order to produce Janus particles coated with a small dot. Insets are scanning after which the two slides can be pulled electron micrographs with scale bars of b) 10 mm, e) 15 mm, and c,g) 2 mm. apart. The particles remain anchored to the bottom slide due to stronger adhesion forces, leaving a small dot of 20% uncoated surface remaining on each transmission through half of the particle leading to unbalanced particle (Fig. 2e). A thinner 20-nm cobalt layer is evaporated gradient and scattering forces, consequently expelling a Janus onto the surface (Fig. 2f). Thinner metal films allow for easier particle from the center of the trap. This effect was recently lift-off when the sample is next developed to remove the observed experimentally.[9] At low optical powers (7 mW), it was photoresist and release the dot Janus particles into solution demonstrated that Janus beads can be confined within an optical (Fig. 2g). The particles can then be transferred to an aqueous trap,[9] however, the trapping region in these cases is not strongly solvent for testing. localized and rotation of the particle can be observed about the ß 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 1–5 Final page numbers not assigned www.advmat.de it along the external field direction, according * * * to t m ¼ m0 m p H ext , where m0 is the permeability of free space. For the 10-mm-diameter dot Janus particles fabricated here, the maximum magnetic torque in a 50 Oe magnetic field is calculated to be 2 1015 N m. For low Reynolds number systems, such as this one where inertial terms are negligible, the rotation frequency of the particle can be Figure 3. a) Coordinate axes are defined relative to particle orientation, as depicted. b) Illus- determined through the balance between tration of bead trajectory and c) micrograph depicting an overlay of 12 images during optical magnetic torque and viscous drag, where 3 manipulation of a dot Janus particle with magnetic moment oriented along w ¼ 08. Manipulation g ROT ¼ 8pha , is the torsional friction on a sequence starts at the arrow and moves particles along x, y, xz, and yz global axes. Inset in particle of radius a due to a fluid with viscosity (c) shows the orientation of the dot. Scale bar is 10 mm. h. For sufficiently low rotation frequencies, the particle becomes phase-locked with the exterIn order to test the optical compatibility of these Janus nal field and follows the equations of motion of a non-linear particles, each type of suspension was exposed to an optical trap. harmonic oscillator, similar to systems studied by others.[41] For The optical trapping setup, identical to Jenness et al.,[35] used a this system, we calculate the critical frequency to be on the order 532-nm wavelength laser coupled with a spatial light modulator. of hundreds of hertz, thus the angular velocity of the particle will Half Janus particles were immediately expelled from the beam nearly always be phase locked with the field. For the sake of focus when the laser was turned on (see Supporting Information, comparison, the magnetic torque in our experimental system is Video 1). Upon lowering the average beam power below a certain three orders of magnitude larger than torques previously reported threshold (<8.0 mW), half Janus particles, though not trapped, in similar optomagnetic systems,[17] which is a direct result of the would remain near the focal point. Occasionally, these proximal large volume of ferromagnetic material on the surface of these dot particles were observed to rotate around the focal point, Janus particles. This torque, of course, can be adjusted by consistent with previous results.[9] In some cases, heating of changing the thickness of the cobalt dot, however, this additional the particle was observed as substantiated by the formation of air control element was not tested here. bubbles nucleating on the particle surface, a phenomenon Although alignment in two dimensions can be achieved using previously observed in colloidal suspensions of micropartia single uniform field, due to the axial symmetry of the field, the cles.[36–39] However, at these lower beam intensities, the optical particle will have one remaining orientational degree of freedom traps could not overcome surface and gravitational forces to that cannot be controlled. For example, if the field direction is translate half Janus particles in a reliable fashion. w,c ¼ 08, then the magnetic moment will be constrained to the Alternatively, the dot Janus particles can be trapped in the focal plane w,c ¼ 08. However, the particle is still free to rotate in u point of the optical trap and subsequently controlled in three (Fig. 4). It is possible to increase the control of the particle by orthogonal spatial directions (x, y, z) (Fig. 3, see Supporting using an optical trap in combination with external magnetic field. Information, Video 2). In the coordinate system defined in The optical trap can directly control three translational degrees of Figure 3a, the trapped dot Janus particle remains free to rotate in freedom of the particle while constraining one rotational degree the c and w directions, however, the optical trap effectively of freedom (u in this case). In addition, the magnetic field can constrains the particle’s motion in the u direction in order to directly control the remaining two orientational degrees of minimize interference of the cobalt dot with the transmission of freedom leading to near holonomic control of a colloidal particle. the optical beam. While it is theoretically possible to directly To demonstrate this system, three iron-core solenoids are placed control u as well by using an optical beam that can be independently rotated, this is technically very challenging and was not demonstrated in this work. Trapping of both dot Janus and bare 10-mm particles was consistently observed with laser intensities in the range of 2 to 15 mW. The compatibility of the dot Janus particles with the full range of trapping laser intensities demonstrates that the metal coatings of dot Janus particles do not impair the optical trapping capability. To test the magnetic response of both types of Janus particles, external magnetic fields were applied using iron-core solenoids. Cobalt is ferromagnetic, retaining a remnant magnetic moment, * m p , in the absence of magnetic field. The magnetic moment of cobalt can be approximated from the magnetization of bulk * cobalt, M p ¼ 5000 0e,[40] and the volume of the cobalt patch, Vp, * * Figure 4. Orientational control of dot Janus particles is demonstrated. as m p ¼ M p Vp . Thin films of cobalt have large shape anisotropy, a) Cartoon and b) fluorescent micrograph of the alignment of dot Janus which causes the magnetic moment to be effectively pinned in the * particles’ magnetic moments with an applied external field (black arrows). plane of the film. In the presence of an external field, H ext , the Due to the axial symmetry of the applied field, particles remain free to rotate * moment of the particle will feel a magnetic torque, t m , that aligns in u. COMMUNICATION Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 1–5 3 Final page numbers not assigned ß 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim COMMUNICATION www.advmat.de Experimental Preparation of Colloidal Crystals: To deposit a single layer of colloids onto a glass slide, 10-mm polystyrene particles (Thermofisher, Waltham, MA) were transferred from aqueous solvent by spinning the particles down in a centrifuge at 2 units of relative centrifugal force for 1 min and resuspending them in ethanol. These particles were pipetted onto slightly tilted glass microscope slides, which formed consistent regions of close-packed monolayers via gravitation induced sedimentation combined with solvent evaporation. Development and Stabilization of Dot Janus Particles: After metal evaporation (Fig. 2f), the glass Figure 5. Simultaneous optical and magnetic control of a dot Janus particle is demonstrated. slide with dot Janus particles is placed in a small glass a) The magnetic field setup required for ‘dot’ Janus optical and magnetic manipulation. The vial filled with M-351 (Microchem) for 5 min and solenoids apply the magnetic field required for rotation while the optical trap positions the sonicated for 10 s. With the dot Janus particles in particle in three dimensions b) Overlay of seven images as dot Janus particle is spatially moved suspension, the slide is discarded and the fluid is around a predefined circle (dotted line) by a holographic optical trap and rotationally oriented by a pipetted into microcentrifuge tubes and diluted 0.1 Hz rotating magnetic field. For visual aid, illustrations of the particle orientation are provided ten-fold with 0.05% LiquiNox. The particles are spun with the arrows indicating the direction of the magnetic field at each instance. c–e) Sequence of down in a centrifuge at 2 units of relative centrifugal images showing rotation of Janus particle around w axis while optically trapped. A particle with force for 1 min and resuspended in 0.05% LiquiNox. small debris was intentionally used to better visualize the orientation of the Janus particle in w. This step is repeated an additional time. Optical Trap Set-up: The laser was a pulsed Coherent Primsa Nd:YVO4 512 nm. The microscope used was a Zeiss along orthogonal axes that are positioned 5 cm from the Axiovert 200 microscope fit with Zeiss 100, 40, and 10 lenses. The sample (Fig. 5a). A dot Janus particle is first optically trapped SLM used was a HOLOEYE LCR 2500 and was run in phase only mode. The within the focal point allowing for control of x, y, z and a beam path was encoded in phase holograms to create the desired intensity distributions and played back in movie form to create preprogrammed constraint of u ¼ 08. An external magnetic field is applied to orient paths. To prepare a sample for the optical trap, dilute Janus particle the particle in w and c directions (see Supporting Information, suspensions (0.1% volume fraction) were placed between a microscope Video 3). slide and a glass coverslip separated by a 120-mm-thick spacer (Invitrogen, In order to demonstrate the degree of particle control, a series Carlsbad, CA). of videos is provided as a visual aid. In one, a particle is moved in a circular path via a programmed optical beam while a 30 Gauss, 0.1 Hz horizontally rotating magnetic field simultaneously orients the particle in c, (Fig. 5b, see Supporting Information, Video 4). In another, a 30 Gauss, 1 Hz vertically rotating magnetic field is shown to rotate the particle’s orientation in w, (Fig. 5c–e, see Supporting Information, Video 5). Theoretically, it is possible to use holograms generated by spatial light modulators to control multiple particles simultaneously.[11,12,35] This approach may also be combined with local magnetic fields to achieve near holonomic control of an ensemble of particles.[42,43] In this work, we have developed a new method for the controlled synthesis of dot Janus particles that have sufficiently small surface coverage of cobalt film to allow compatibility with an optical trap. The near holonomic control over these spherical Janus particles opens up a new realm of advanced manipulation strategies that will have important ramifications in nanoengineering. The controlled manipulation of dot Janus particles affords new degrees of freedom in the measurement of mechanical properties of previously investigated molecules such as DNA, ankyrin, and many other biomolecules.[17,44,45] Recent studies have also introduced the concept of manipulating and controlling cell function through the magnetic actuation of nanoparticles bound to the cell surface.[46,47] These potential biological applications as well as the ability to improve directed hierarchical particle assembly establish the broad reaching scientific value of the capabilities demonstrated here. 4 Acknowledgements Randall M. Erb and Nathan J. Jenness contributed equally to this work. The authors acknowledge funding from National Science Foundation grants: IGERT Fellowship DGE-0221632 (R. M. E., N. J. J.), CMMI-0625480 and CMMI- 0800173 (B. B. Y), a Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team grant: DMI-0609265 (R. L. C., N. J. J.), and a Medtronic Graduate Fellowship (R. M. E.). 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