摘要：Optical manipulation of micro/nanoscale objects is of importance in life sciences,colloidal science,and *** tweezers exhibit superior manipulation capability at low optical ***,our implicit understanding of the working mechanism has limited the further applications and innovations of optothermal ***,we present an atomistic view of opto-thermo-electro-mechanic coupling in optothermal tweezers,which enables us to rationally design the tweezers for optimum performance in targeted ***,we have revealed that the non-uniform temperature distribution induces water polarization and charge separation,which creates the thermoelectric field dominating the optothermal *** further design experiments to systematically verify our atomistic *** by our new model,we develop new types of optothermal tweezers of high performance using low-concentrated ***,we demonstrate the use of new tweezers in opto-thermophoretic separation of colloidal particles of the same size based on the difference in their surface charge,which has been challenging for conventional optical *** the atomistic understanding that enables the performance optimization and function expansion,optothermal tweezers will further their impacts.