Soft actuators for real-world applications

M Li, A Pal, A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied
animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of …

Aggregation‐enhanced theranostics: AIE sparkles in biomedical field

M Kang, Z Zhang, N Song, M Li, P Sun, X Chen… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Theranostics referring to the ingenious integration of diagnostics and therapeutics has
garnered tremendous attention in these years as it provides a promising opportunity for …

Magnetically steerable bacterial microrobots moving in 3D biological matrices for stimuli-responsive cargo delivery

MB Akolpoglu, Y Alapan, NO Dogan, SF Baltaci… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Bacterial biohybrids, composed of self-propelling bacteria carrying micro/nanoscale
materials, can deliver their payload to specific regions under magnetic control, enabling …

Polarization of Tumor-Associated Macrophages by Nanoparticle-Loaded Escherichia coli Combined with Immunogenic Cell Death for Cancer Immunotherapy

B Wei, J Pan, R Yuan, B Shao, Y Wang, X Guo… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment greatly limits the efficacy of
immunotherapy. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are the most abundant …

Recent advances on endogenous/exogenous stimuli-triggered nanoplatforms for enhanced chemodynamic therapy

Q Sun, Z Wang, B Liu, F He, S Gai, P Yang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
In view of certain unique internalization features of the tumor microenvironment
(TME)(mainly including hypoxia, acidity and higher concentrations of H 2 O 2 and GSH) …

Biohybrid robotics with living cell actuation

L Sun, Y Yu, Z Chen, F Bian, F Ye, L Sun… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
As simulators of organisms in Nature, soft robots have been developed over the past few
decades. In particular, biohybrid robots constructed by integrating living cells with soft …

Advances in photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy

A Anas, J Sobhanan, KM Sulfiya, C Jasmin… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT)
combine light and photosensitizers to treat cancers and microbial infections, respectively. In …

Bright bacterium for hypoxia‐tolerant photodynamic therapy against orthotopic colon tumors by an interventional method

D Zhu, J Zhang, G Luo, Y Duo, BZ Tang - Advanced science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While promising, the efficacy of aggregation‐induced emission (AIE)‐based photodynamic
therapy (PDT) is limited by several factors including limited depth of laser penetration and …

Sequential magneto‐actuated and optics‐triggered biomicrorobots for targeted cancer therapy

J Xing, T Yin, S Li, T Xu, A Ma, Z Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Micro/nanorobots have the potential to be remotely propelled and manipulated in complex
biological fluid and organ tissue. However, the combination of the sophisticated …

Constructing adaptive photosensitizers via supramolecular modification based on pillararene host–guest interactions

L Shao, Y Pan, B Hua, S Xu, G Yu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In order to promote the development of photodynamic therapy (PDT), undesired side effects
like low tumor specificity and the “always‐on” phenomenon should be avoided. An effective …