Lighting up micro-/nanorobots with fluorescence

M Yang, X Guo, F Mou, J Guan - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Micro-/nanorobots (MNRs) can be autonomously propelled on demand in complex
biological environments and thus may bring revolutionary changes to biomedicines …

A review on electrospun polymeric nanofibers: Production parameters and potential applications

HM Ibrahim, A Klingner - Polymer Testing, 2020 - Elsevier
This review deals with electrospun nanofibers and their applications in several fields.
Nanofibers have mainly been produced via electrospinning technique due to the simple …

A review of magnet systems for targeted drug delivery

YL Liu, D Chen, P Shang, DC Yin - Journal of Controlled Release, 2019 - Elsevier
Magnetic drug targeting is a method by which magnetic drug carriers in the body are
manipulated by external magnetic fields to reach the target area. This method is potentially …

Recent advances on core–shell magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers for biomacromolecules

M Dinc, C Esen, B Mizaikoff - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
During the last decade, templating polymers using molecular imprinting has developed into
an efficient strategy for the creation of selective synthetic receptor materials based on cross …

A review of magnetically actuated milli/micro-scale robots locomotion and features

A de Oliveira Barros, J Yang - Critical Reviews™ in Biomedical …, 2019 - dl.begellhouse.com
In the past decades, wireless milli and micro devices have been incorporated into medical
procedures as a way to reduce invasiveness. However, the commercially available methods …

On-surface locomotion of particle based microrobots using magnetically induced oscillation

UK Cheang, J Ali, H Kim, L Rogowski, MJ Kim - Micromachines, 2017 - mdpi.com
The low Reynolds number condition presents a fundamental constraint on designing
locomotive mechanisms for microscale robots. We report on the use of an oscillating …

Swimming in low Reynolds numbers using planar and helical flagellar waves

ISM Khalil, AF Tabak, M Abou Seif… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In travelling towards the oviducts, sperm cells undergo transitions between planar to helical
flagellar propulsion by a beating tail based on the viscosity of the environment. In this work …

[PDF][PDF] Targeting of cancer cells using controlled nanoparticles and robotics sperms

IS Khalil, RM Abdel-Kader, IE Gomaa, N Serag… - Int. J. Adv. Robot …, 2016 - mnrlab.com
We achieve selective penetration of MCF-7 breast cancer cells using iron-oxide
nanoparticles without causing a permanent damage to the membrane and without any effect …

Modelling, fabrication and characterization of tetherless magnetorheological soft robots

A de Oliveira Barros - 2022 - ttu-ir.tdl.org
Among the recently developed technologies aimed at minimally invasive medicine,
magnetorheological robotics has been shown a great alternative for tetherless controllable …