Aug. 2022 Yaoran's work on cell adhesion on Light-Driven Single-Cell Rotational Adhesion Frequency Assay (eLight 2022) has been featured by 中国光学, Light: Science & Applications News & Views, EurekAlert! as an innovative approach to cell binding that could help our understanding of diseases.

Jul. 2022 Yaoran's work on cell adhesion on Light-Driven Single-Cell Rotational Adhesion Frequency Assay (eLight 2022) has been selected as a Cover Article.

Jul. 2022 Yaoran's work on optical nanomotors on Opto-Thermocapillary Nanomotors on Solid Substrates (ACS Nano 2022) was featured by UT Research; CSE News; TMI News; The Daily Texan; EurekAlert!; Optics & Photonics News; Nanowerk; Mirage News; Phys.org; True Virtual News; Whats New; Swift Telecast; SciTech Daily; Today UK News; Tech Times; Photonics.com; Haptic; Smart 2.0; Verve Times; Head Topics; Industry Update; StatNano; News Break; Knowledia; My Droll; Samachar Central; TechCodex; Madrid; Inovacao Tecnologica; Noticias de la Ciencia; Tech Briefs.

Jul. 2022 Yaoran's work on optical manipulation on Programmable Multimodal Optothermal Manipulation of Synthetic Particles and Biological Cells (ACS Nano 2022) was featured by Nanowerk.

Nov. 2021 Yaoran joined KLA-Tencor as a Product Development Engineer.

Aug. 2021 Yaoran successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering!

Jul. 2021 Yaoran's work on optical manipulation on Opto-refrigerative tweezers (Science Advances 2021) was featured by UT News; Eurekalert!; Bioengineer; ScienMag; Phys.org; ForbesAlert; Nanotechnology Now; ScienceDaily; AzoOptics; SciTechDaily; Sina; Sohu; Nanowerk; Optics.org; x-mol; Explica; Photonics; Physics World; Khem Geek; News Break; Opera News; Lab Manager; Science Atlas.

Mar. 2021 Yaoran's work on chiral sensor on Label-Free Ultrasensitive Detection of Abnormal Chiral Metabolites in Diabetes (ACS Nano 2021) was featured by Nanowerk; ME; CSE.

Feb. 2021 Yaoran's work on tunable chiral metamaterials on Tunable Chiral Optics in All-Solid-Phase Reconfigurable Dielectric Nanostructures (Nano Letters 2021) was featured by Nanowerk and was selected as a Front Cover Article!

Aug. 2020 Yaoran's work on microswimmer on Opto-Thermoelectric Microswimmers (Light: Science & Applications 2020) was featured by Nanowerk; Phys.org; X-mol; Weixin; Zhihu; Physics World; SYFY WIRE;

Apr. 2020 Yaoran's work on optical pulling on Opto-Thermoelectric Pulling of Light-Absorbing Particles (Light: Science & Applications 2020) was featured by EurekAlert!; 中国光学; NewScientist;

Mar. 2020 Yaoran's work on optical manipulation on Optical nanomanipulation on solid substrates via optothermally-gated photon nudging (Nature Communications 2019) was selected as Top 50 Physics Articles in Nature Communications and was featured by Nanowerk !

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