Role of nanomaterials in the treatment of wastewater: A review

AA Yaqoob, T Parveen, K Umar, MN Mohamad Ibrahim - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Water is an essential part of life and its availability is important for all living creatures. On the
other side, the world is suffering from a major problem of drinking water. There are several …

Self‐Propelled Micro‐/Nanomotors as “On‐the‐Move” Platforms: Cleaners, Sensors, and Reactors

Y Hu, W Liu, Y Sun - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Artificial micro‐/nanomotors (MNMs) are tiny apparatuses that can autonomously
navigate and perform specific tasks at micro‐/nanoscale. The continuous movement …

Active, Yet Little Mobility: Asymmetric Decomposition of H2O2 Is Not Sufficient in Propelling Catalytic Micromotors

X Lyu, X Liu, C Zhou, S Duan, P Xu, J Dai… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A popular principle in designing chemical micromachines is to take advantage of
asymmetric chemical reactions such as the catalytic decomposition of H2O2. Contrary to …

Metal–organic frameworks in motion

A Terzopoulou, JD Nicholas, XZ Chen… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
During the last two decades, engineering motion with small-scale matter has received much
attention in several areas of research, ranging from supramolecular chemistry and colloidal …

Cancer Cells Microsurgery via Asymmetric Bent Surface Au/Ag/Ni Microrobotic Scalpels Through a Transversal Rotating Magnetic Field

J Vyskocil, CC Mayorga-Martinez, E Jablonská… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The actuation of micro/nanomachines by means of a magnetic field is a promising fuel-free
way to transport cargo in microscale dimensions. This type of movement has been …

A review on the role of nanomaterials in the removal of organic pollutants from wastewater

A Thirunavukkarasu, R Nithya… - Reviews in Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Water scarcity will be the prime threat to the millions of the human race across the globe in
the future. In the recent report of WHO, about 50% of people will sustain their livings in the …

Materials consideration for the design, fabrication and operation of microscale robots

C Chen, S Ding, J Wang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Microscale robots have been the focus of extensive research efforts resulting in various
innovative developments that broaden their capabilities and applications. The rational …

Magnetic micromotors for multiple motile sperm cells capture, transport, and enzymatic release

H Xu, M Medina‐Sánchez… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An integrated system combining a magnetically‐driven micromotor and a synthetized protein‐
based hyaluronic acid (HA) microflake is presented for the in situ selection and transport of …

Collective behavior of magnetic microrobots through immuno-sandwich assay: On-the-fly COVID-19 sensing

CC Mayorga-Martinez, J Vyskočil, F Novotný… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mobile self-propelled micro/nanorobots are mobile binding surface that improved the
sensitivity of many biosensing system by “on-the-fly” identification and isolation of different …

Bubble-propelled micro/nanomotors: a robust platform for the detection of environmental pollutants and biosensing

SK Panda, NA Kherani, S Debata, DP Singh - Materials Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The sensitive and rapid detection of a variety of hazardous environmental pollutants and bio-
analytes such as microorganisms and biomolecules is of great importance for environmental …