Trends in micro‐/nanorobotics: materials development, actuation, localization, and system integration for biomedical applications

B Wang, K Kostarelos, BJ Nelson… - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Micro‐/nanorobots (m‐bots) have attracted significant interest due to their suitability
for applications in biomedical engineering and environmental remediation. Particularly, their …

Microfluidic nanoparticles for drug delivery

Y Liu, G Yang, Y Hui, S Ranaweera, CX Zhao - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticles (NPs) have attracted tremendous interest in drug delivery in the past decades.
Microfluidics offers a promising strategy for making NPs for drug delivery due to its capability …

Management of fluorescent organic/inorganic nanohybrids for biomedical applications in the NIR-II region

B Li, M Zhao, J Lin, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomedical fluorescence imaging in the second near-infrared (NIR-II, 100–1700 nm) window
provides great potential for visualizing physiological and pathological processes, owing to …

Gold complexes in anticancer therapy: From new design principles to particle‐based delivery systems

G Moreno‐Alcántar, P Picchetti… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of the medicinal properties of gold complexes has fuelled the design and
synthesis of new anticancer metallodrugs, which have received special attention due to their …

Synthetic amorphous silica nanoparticles: toxicity, biomedical and environmental implications

JG Croissant, KS Butler, JI Zink, CJ Brinker - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Natural silica and silicates are predominantly crystalline and constitute the most abundant
components of the Earth's crust. Man-made silica is typically amorphous and manufactured …

Nanoarchitectured structure and surface biofunctionality of mesoporous silica nanoparticles

RK Kankala, YH Han, J Na, CH Lee, Z Sun… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs), one of the important porous materials, have
garnered interest owing to their highly attractive physicochemical features and …

Multifunctional nanotheranostics for near infrared optical imaging-guided treatment of brain tumors

L Zhang, Y Liu, H Huang, H Xie, B Zhang, W Xia… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Malignant brain tumors, a heterogeneous group of primary and metastatic neoplasms in the
central nervous system (CNS), are notorious for their highly invasive and devastating …

Mussel-inspired chemistry: a promising strategy for natural polysaccharides in biomedical applications

F Liu, X Liu, F Chen, Q Fu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are a kind of natural biopolymers and have been widely applied in various
fields, especially biomedical applications, due to their fascinating properties, such as …

Metal-free bioorthogonal click chemistry in cancer theranostics

D Wu, K Yang, Z Zhang, Y Feng, L Rao… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioorthogonal chemistry is a powerful tool to site-specifically activate drugs in living systems.
Bioorthogonal reactions between a pair of biologically reactive groups can rapidly and …

Metal–organic framework-derived porous materials for catalysis

YZ Chen, R Zhang, L Jiao, HL Jiang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), constructed by metal ions/clusters and organic
linkers, featuring crystalline porous structures, have been intensively employed as …