Materials for smart soft actuator systems

I Apsite, S Salehi, L Ionov - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Micro/nanoscale magnetic robots for biomedical applications

M Koleoso, X Feng, Y Xue, Q Li, T Munshi, X Chen - Materials Today Bio, 2020 - Elsevier
Magnetic small-scale robots are devices of great potential for the biomedical field because
of the several benefits of this method of actuation. Recent work on the development of these …

Micro/nanofabrication, assembly, and actuation based on microorganisms: Recent advances and perspectives

D Gong, L Sun, X Li, W Zhang, D Zhang… - Small Structures, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms become new sources for fabricating intricate micro/nano structures via
bottom‐up approaches. Produced from nature, microorganism biotemplates exhibit unique …

Micro/nanorobot: A promising targeted drug delivery system

M Hu, X Ge, X Chen, W Mao, X Qian, WE Yuan - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Micro/nanorobot, as a research field, has attracted interest in recent years. It has great
potential in medical treatment, as it can be applied in targeted drug delivery, surgical …

Biohybrid and bioinspired magnetic microswimmers

K Bente, A Codutti, F Bachmann, D Faivre - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many motile microorganisms swim and navigate in chemically and mechanically complex
environments. These organisms can be functionalized and directly used for applications …

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 …

Strategies for measuring airway mucus and mucins

KR Atanasova, LR Reznikov - Respiratory Research, 2019 - Springer
Mucus secretion and mucociliary transport are essential defense mechanisms of the
airways. Deviations in mucus composition and secretion can impede mucociliary transport …

Cell-based intelligent micro/nanorobots for precise regulation and active biotherapy

G Huang, T Yin, B Zhang, A Ma, T Kang, Y He, Y Long… - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Precision medicine has shown great promise in the field of individual biomedicine and its
clinical application. However, accurate and efficient treatment remains challenging due to …

Biomimetic bacterial and viral-based nanovesicles for drug delivery, theranostics, and vaccine applications

YS Loo, RJC Bose, JR McCarthy, IDM Azmi… - Drug Discovery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biomimetic enable the safe integration of naturally-occurring bacteria and virus
particles.•Bioinspired materials comprise the development of novel nanomedicines and …