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 …

Collective behaviors of magnetic active matter: recent progress toward reconfigurable, adaptive, and multifunctional swarming micro/nanorobots

D Jin, L Zhang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Active matter refers to the nonequilibrium system composed of interacting units
that continually dissipate energy at a single-unit level and transduce it into mechanical force …

Magnetic bio-hybrid micro actuators

D Quashie, P Benhal, Z Chen, Z Wang, X Mu, X Song… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing body of work on wireless devices that
can operate on the length scales of biological cells and even smaller. A class of these …

Magnetization dynamics of superparamagnetic nanoparticles for magnetic particle spectroscopy and imaging

G Barrera, P Allia, P Tiberto - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
An exact theory is developed with the aim of assessing the properties of the harmonics
spectrum of the dynamic magnetization originating from superparamagnetic nanoparticles …

Spatially selective delivery of living magnetic microrobots through torque-focusing

N Mirkhani, MG Christiansen, T Gwisai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Rotating magnetic fields enable biomedical microrobots to overcome physiological barriers
and promote extravasation and accumulation in tumors. Nevertheless, targeting deeply …

On Nanomachines and Their Future Perspectives in Biomedicine

MA Ramos Docampo - Advanced Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nano/micromotors are a class of active matter that can self‐propel converting different types
of input energy into kinetic energy. The huge efforts that are made in this field over the last …

Magnetic nanoparticle imaging: Insight on the effects of magnetic interactions and hysteresis of tracers

G Barrera, P Allia, P Tiberto - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
The dynamic properties of magnetite nanoparticles are investigated by rate equations with
the aim of clarifying the factors affecting their performance as tracers in magnetic particle …

Selective locomotion control of magnetic torque-driven magnetic robots within confined channels

A Ramos-Sebastian, W Jung, SH Kim - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of global magnetic fields—typically produced by pairs of Maxwell and Helmholtz
coils—offers the advantage of generating uniform magnetic fields and magnitude uniform …

Magnetic particle image scanner based on asymmetric core-filled electromagnetic actuator

KT Nguyen, MP Bui, TA Le, SJ Kim, HY Kim… - Computers in Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Monitoring the distribution of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) in the vascular system is an
important task for the advancement of precision therapeutics and drug delivery. Despite …

An Overview of Micro/Nanorobot Swarm Control: From Fundamental Understanding to Autonomy

J Jiang, L Yang, L Zhang - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro/nanorobots have gained increasing attention worldwide owing to their promising
potential in biomedicine. Benefiting from their small size and controllability …