Basudev Roy, Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Bibudha Parasar, Nirmalya Ghosh, Prasanta Panigrahi, Ayan Banerjee, Soumyajit Roy
An important challenge in the field of materials design and synthesis is to deliberately design mesoscopic objects starting from well-defined precursors and inducing directed movements in them to emulate biological processes. Recently, mesoscopic metal-oxide based Soft Oxo Metalates (SOMs) have been synthesized from well-defined molecular precursors transcending the regime of translational periodicity. Here we show that it is actually possible to controllably move such an asymmetric SOM-with the shape of a `pea-pod' along complex paths using tailor-made sophisticated optical potentials created by spin-orbit interaction due to a tightly focused linearly polarized Gaussian beam propagating through stratified media in an optical trap. We demonstrate motion of individual trapped SOMs along circular paths of more than 15 $\mu$m in a perfectly controlled manner by simply varying the input polarization of the trapping laser. Such controlled motion can have a wide range of application starting from catalysis to the construction of dynamic mesoscopic architectures.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1602
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