Editors’ choice for the thematic issue “Nano-optics, Photonics, and Coherent Spectroscopy” is the paper entitled “Structured Optothermal Traps” by S. P. Kotova, N. N. Losevsky, A. M. Mayorova, Ye. V. Razueva and S. A. Samagin (Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics, 2022, Volume 86, Issue 12, P. 1434-1437).