Recent progress in microfluidic biosensors with different driving forces

Y Liu, H Shen, X Yang, S Kang, L Cai, T Tian… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microfluidic biosensors integrating fluid control, target recognition, as well as signal
transduction and output, have been widely used in the field of disease diagnosis, drug …

Microfluidics for microswimmers: engineering novel swimmers and constructing swimming lanes on the microscale, a tutorial review

P Sharan, A Nsamela, SC Lesher‐Pérez, J Simmchen - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides an updated review of recent advances in microfluidics applied to
artificial and biohybrid microswimmers. Sharing the common regime of low Reynolds …

From radial to unidirectional water pumping in zeta-potential modulated Nafion nanostructures

MJ Esplandiu, D Reguera, D Romero-Guzmán… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chemically propelled micropumps are promising wireless systems to autonomously drive
fluid flows for many applications. However, many of these systems are activated by nocuous …

Chemical design of self-propelled Janus droplets

CH Meredith, AC Castonguay, YJ Chiu, AM Brooks… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Solubilizing, self-propelling droplets have emerged as a rich chemical platform for the
exploration of active matter, but isotropic droplets rely on spontaneous symmetry breaking to …

Introduction to photothermal nanomaterials

SY Tee, KY Win, SS Goh, CP Teng, KY Tang… - 2022 - books.rsc.org
Advances in nanotechnology have resulted in a library of functional nanomaterials with well-
defined size, shape, composition, and surface functionalities that enable the conversion of …

Shape‐Changing Particles: From Materials Design and Mechanisms to Implementation

N Tanjeem, MB Minnis, RC Hayward… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Demands for next‐generation soft and responsive materials have sparked recent interest in
the development of shape‐changing particles and particle assemblies. Over the last two …

Modern microelectronics and microfluidics on microneedles

Y Han, J Li, T Chen, B Gao, H Wang - Analyst, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Possessing the attractive advantages of moderate invasiveness and high compliance, there
is no doubt that microneedles (MNs) have been a gradually rising star in the field of …

Orbits, spirals, and trapped states: Dynamics of a phoretic Janus particle in a radial concentration gradient

P Bayati, SA Mallory - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
A long-standing goal in colloidal active matter is to understand how gradients in fuel
concentration influence the motion of phoretic Janus particles. Here, we present a …

Titania-based micro/nanomotors: design principles, biomimetic collective behavior, and applications

J Zhang, J Song, F Mou, J Guan, A Sen - Trends in Chemistry, 2021 - cell.com
Autonomous micro/nanomotors (MNMs) serve as models for biologically active matter and
have potential applications in nanomachinery, nanoscale assembly, robotics, fluidics, and …

Pumping and mixing in active pores

GC Antunes, P Malgaretti, J Harting, S Dietrich - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We show both numerically and analytically that a chemically patterned active pore can act
as a micro-or nanopump for fluids, even if it is fore-aft symmetric. This is possible due to a …