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 …

Medical micro/nanorobots in precision medicine

F Soto, J Wang, R Ahmed, U Demirci - Advanced science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in medical robots promise to improve modern medicine and the quality of life.
Miniaturization of these robotic platforms has led to numerous applications that leverages …

Magnetic torque–driven living microrobots for increased tumor infiltration

T Gwisai, N Mirkhani, MG Christiansen, TT Nguyen… - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
Biohybrid bacteria–based microrobots are increasingly recognized as promising externally
controllable vehicles for targeted cancer therapy. Magnetic fields in particular have been …

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 …

Magnetic nanocarriers: evolution of spinel ferrites for medical applications

M Amiri, M Salavati-Niasari, A Akbari - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2019 - Elsevier
A valuable site-directed application in the field of nanomedicine is targeted drug delivery
using magnetic metal oxide nanoparticles by applying an external magnetic field at the …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering nano-drug biointerface to overcome biological barriers toward precision drug delivery

S Waheed, Z Li, F Zhang, A Chiarini, U Armato… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
The rapid advancement of nanomedicine and nanoparticle (NP) materials presents novel
solutions potentially capable of revolutionizing health care by improving efficacy …

Magnetic actuation methods in bio/soft robotics

N Ebrahimi, C Bi, DJ Cappelleri, G Ciuti… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers
for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic …

Control and autonomy of microrobots: Recent progress and perspective

J Jiang, Z Yang, A Ferreira… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of development, microrobots have exhibited great application potential in the
biomedical field, such as minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, and bio‐sensing …

Magneto-aerotactic bacteria deliver drug-containing nanoliposomes to tumour hypoxic regions

O Felfoul, M Mohammadi, S Taherkhani… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Oxygen-depleted hypoxic regions in the tumour are generally resistant to therapies.
Although nanocarriers have been used to deliver drugs, the targeting ratios have been very …

Bacteria-triggered tumor-specific thrombosis to enable potent photothermal immunotherapy of cancer

X Yi, H Zhou, Y Chao, S Xiong, J Zhong, Z Chai… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
We discovered that attenuated Salmonella after intravenous injection would proliferate
within various types of solid tumors but show rapid clearance in normal organs, without …