[HTML][HTML] Smart/stimuli-responsive hydrogels: Cutting-edge platforms for tissue engineering and other biomedical applications

HM El-Husseiny, EA Mady, L Hamabe, A Abugomaa… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, biomedicine and tissue regeneration have emerged as great advances that
impacted the spectrum of healthcare. This left the door open for further improvement of their …

Bioinspired hydrogel actuator for soft robotics: Opportunity and challenges

Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogel muscles powering reconfigurable micro-metastructures with wide-spectrum programmability

M Zhang, A Pal, Z Zheng, G Gardi, E Yildiz, M Sitti - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Stimuli-responsive geometric transformations endow metamaterials with dynamic properties
and functionalities. However, using existing transformation mechanisms to program a single …

[HTML][HTML] Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions

G Gardi, S Ceron, W Wang, K Petersen… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could
potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing …

A tissue adhesion‐controllable and biocompatible small‐scale hydrogel adhesive robot

YW Lee, S Chun, D Son, X Hu, M Schneider… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, the realization of minimally invasive medical interventions on targeted tissues
using wireless small‐scale medical robots has received an increasing attention. For effective …

Wireless miniature magnetic phase‐change soft actuators

Y Tang, M Li, T Wang, X Dong, W Hu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wireless miniature soft actuators are promising for various potential high‐impact
applications in medical, robotic grippers, and artificial muscles. However, these miniature …

Multifunctional 3D‐printed pollen grain‐inspired hydrogel microrobots for on‐demand anchoring and cargo delivery

YW Lee, JK Kim, U Bozuyuk, NO Dogan… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While a majority of wireless microrobots have shown multi‐responsiveness to implement
complex biomedical functions, their functional executions are strongly dependent on the …

Design and build of small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots with multimodal locomotion

Z Ren, M Sitti - Nature protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different
locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying …

Multifunctional 4D‐Printed Sperm‐Hybrid Microcarriers for Assisted Reproduction

F Rajabasadi, S Moreno, K Fichna, A Aziz… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Remotely controllable microrobots are appealing for various biomedical in vivo applications.
In particular, in recent years, our group has focused on developing sperm‐microcarriers to …

[HTML][HTML] 3D nanofabricated soft microrobots with super-compliant picoforce springs as onboard sensors and actuators

H Xu, S Wu, Y Liu, X Wang, AK Efremov, L Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microscale organisms and specialized motile cells use protein-based spring-like responsive
structures to sense, grasp and move. Rendering this biomechanical transduction …