Advances in colloidal building blocks: toward patchy colloidal clusters

YJ Kim, JB Moon, H Hwang, YS Kim… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The scalable synthetic route to colloidal atoms has significantly advanced over the past two
decades. Recently, colloidal clusters with DNA‐coated cores called “patchy colloidal …

[HTML][HTML] Reconfigurable self-assembly of photocatalytic magnetic microrobots for water purification

M Urso, M Ussia, X Peng, CM Oral, M Pumera - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
The development of artificial small-scale robotic swarms with nature-mimicking collective
behaviors represents the frontier of research in robotics. While microrobot swarming under …

Advances in Finite Element Analysis of External Field‐Driven Micro/Nanorobots: A Review

Y Liu, Y Feng, M An, MT Sarwar… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of nanotechnology, micro/nanorobots (MNRs) have become
promising medical tools given their advantages of unconstrained and precisely controlled …

Highly sensitive and simultaneous detection of ctDNAs related to non-small cell lung cancer in serum using a catalytic hairpin assembly strategy in a SERS …

X Cao, Y Mao, Y Gu, S Ge, W Lu, Y Gu… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is an ideal biomarker for cancer diagnosis based on liquid
biopsy, so there is an urgent need for developing an efficient, rapid, and ultrasensitive …

Designing, synthesizing, and modeling active fluids

I Essafri, B Ghosh, C Desgranges, J Delhommelle - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We review recent advances in the design, synthesis, and modeling of active fluids. Active
fluids have been at the center of many technological innovations and theoretical advances …

Shape‐Dictated Self‐Assembly of Photoresponsive Hybrid Colloids

H Zhang, X Feng, X Xia, J Zhu, H Wang, R Ni… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The shape‐dictated self‐assembly of hybrid colloids induced by chemical concentration
gradients generated by photocatalytic reactions of the colloids is studied. Different shapes …

Spearheading a new era in complex colloid synthesis with TPM and other silanes

M Kamp, S Sacanna, RPA Dullens - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Colloid science has recently grown substantially owing to the innovative use of silane
coupling agents (SCAs), especially 3-trimethoxysilylpropyl methacrylate (TPM). SCAs were …

Engineering Native Cells by TiO2 Nanoparticles and Polypyrrole for Light-Responsive Manipulation of Collective Behaviors of Unicellular Organisms

S Wang, H Chen, Z Xu, X Wang, Z Tao… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cell surface engineering is an effective strategy to improve the tolerance of living cells
against harsh environments as well as endow cells with various properties and …

Polymer Configuration Conversion Mechanism in Dynamically Stable Interface of Silicon Anodes

Q Ye, M Jiang, Y Zhang, L Chen, Y Ma… - … Systems Design & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Silicon Oxide Nanospheres (SiOC) has been considered as one of the key candidates for
the next generation of high energy density anode materials. However, the large volume …

Chain Assembly Kinetics from Magnetic Colloidal Spheres

R Mhanna, Y Gao, I Van Tol, E Springer, N Wu… - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Magnetic colloidal chains are a microrobotic system with promising applications due to their
versatility, biocompatibility, and ease of manipulation under magnetic fields. Their synthesis …