November 2017: The Avci research group receives a Marsden Fast Start ($300k) research sponsorship from the Royal Society of New Zealand to study optical nano-machines for analysing molecules.
October 2017: We have a new paper published on “optical micro-robots” in Advanced Optical Materials. And it makes it to the inside front cover of Advanced Optical Materials.
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