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News, Press Coverage, and Recent Additions

• Our article on ultra-efficient colloidal interaction measurements has been picked up for the May 15, 2008 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
• Nature Physics also reviews our PRL on optical phase-gradient forces in its Research Highlights section.
• See the Academy eBriefing written by Don Monroe for The New York Academy of Sciences, posted Jan. 9, 2008.
• Our PRL on optical phase-gradient forces has been picked up for the January 15, 2008 edition of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
• The Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research has reprinted our Optics Express article on holographic microscopy. See the March 1, 2007 edition.
• The Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research has reprinted our Physical Review E article on the selectivity of sorting by optical fractionation. See the February 1, 2007 edition.
• The Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research has reprinted our Physical Review Letter on giant enhancement of the diffusivity of a Brownian particle rolling down a rough hill. See the June 1, 2006 edition.
• The Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research has reprinted our Physical Review Letter on anomalous dispersion of elastic waves in a purely dissipative medium. See the March 15, 2006 edition.
• Our demonstration of holographic assembly of semiconductor nanowires was written up as a New & Analysis cover story in the January 2006 issue of Photonics Spectra
• Hot Diggity! David Grier and Arryx are mentioned in Nanotechnology for Dummies.
• Paul Hanlon reviewed our article on holographically assembled colloidal quasicrystals in the July 21, 2005 issue of Nature Physics. This story also has been picked up by PhysOrg.org, Nano Tsunami, Science News Daily, Small Times, The Washington Times among several other sites.
• Our PRE Rapid Communication on two-state optical thermal ratchets has been reprinted in the July 1, 2005 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
• Our PRL on optical thermal ratchets has been reprinted in the April 1, 2005 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
• The Science Coalition features results from the new Center for Soft Matter Research on its Researcher in the News section, March 7 (2005).
• The World Economic Forum has selected Arryx as one of its Technology Pioneers for 2005. The story by Mark Halper in the December 13, 2004 issue of Time Magazine Europe includes a nifty picture of David. The same story appeared in the January 31, 2005 edition of Time Magazine.
• Arryx has been named one of the Red Herring Top 100 Innovative Companies for 2005. Read the story here
• The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story on the group's move to NYU.
• Our Rapid Communication on optical fractionation has been reprinted in the August 2, 2004 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology. It also was reprinted in the August 1, 2004 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
• Physorg.com has a story about our paper on quantum dot fluorescence (July 15, 2004). Also see the story at EE Times, Innovations Report, Nanotechwire, Science Blog, and at Science Daily. Sandra Guy of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote this article for the August 18, 2004 issue. It also made the cover of the August 2004 III-Vs Review.
• See the article by Celeste Biever in the June 4, 2004 issue of New Scientist on our HOT carbon nanotube paper. This story also was picked up in the July 12 issue of Technology Review. This story also is the Nanopicture of the Day for January 28, 2005.
• Our PRL on statistically locked-in transport was reprinted in the April 15, 2004 edition of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
• Charles Choi of UPI has an article on our HOT nanotube processing in The Washington Times (March 3, 2004).
• The AIP cites our work on optical fractionation as one of the most noteworthy physics stories of 2003. Follow their link to story 627.
• David Grier is named one of the Scientific American 50 for 2003. See the December 2003 issue of Scientific American for details.
• See our Nanopicture of the Day for November 3, 2003.
• Hear Peter Evans' interview with David Grier and others on the October 29, 2003 Scientific Frontiers program on BBC Radio 4.
• Jennifer Oulette has written about our techniques for organizing and driving microfluidic devices with light in the August issue of The Industrial Physicist 9, 14-17 (2003).
• Bruce Schechter provides a nice overview of our work in the August 9 New Scientist 179, 34-37 (2003).
• Gary Stix of Scientific American has written an Innovations article on HOT technology in the August 2003 issue. For those with online subscriptions, here's the link.
• There's a brief story on our optical vortex work in The Futurist.
• The Dallas Morning News ran this story about holographic optical tweezers in microfluidics on June 16, 2003 (free registration required).
• The June 9, 2003 Virtual Journal of Nanoscience & Technology reprinted our article on optical peristalsis.
• Physics News Update Number 639 (May 30, 2003) ran a story on optical peristalsis
• Sandra Guy from the Chicago Sun-Times ran this story about HOTs on May 28, 2003.
• The April 28, 2003 BusinessWeek has a story on our optical vortex research ("A quantum feat: Up and down at the same time," p. 65)
• The June issue of Popular Mechanics has a brief Technology Watch piece on our HOT research ("Molding molecules with light," p. 19)
• Small Times has a story on our optical vortex research.
• Another story on our optical vortices appeared in the April 11, 2003 techextreme.com
• Our optical vortex work also was reprinted in the April 14 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology as well as in the April 15 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
• Celeste Biever from New Scientist wrote an article on our optical vortex work: New Scientist 178, 21 (2003).
• See the New York Times article about Arryx. (Free registration required)
• Our work was featured in a press release by the American Physical Society at the 2003 March Meeting in Austin Texas.
  This release also was picked up by the April 2003 Photonics Spectra.
• Optics Communications lists "Dynamic Holographic Optical Tweezers" as their most-often downloaded article.
• http://optics.org/ has a story on the same article.
• Physical Review Focus ran a story on our article related to optical fractionation.
• The Chicago Tribune has run several stories on this project. Here's one of them.
• OE Magazine ran an eye on technology article on our collaboration with Arryx Inc.

Contact Information

David G. Grier             Department of Physics
                           Center for Soft Matter Research
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