Controlled propulsion of micro/nanomotors: operational mechanisms, motion manipulation and potential biomedical applications

T Liu, L Xie, CAH Price, J Liu, Q He… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by natural mobile microorganisms, researchers have developed micro/nanomotors
(MNMs) that can autonomously move by transducing different kinds of energies into kinetic …

Trends in micro‐/nanorobotics: materials development, actuation, localization, and system integration for biomedical applications

B Wang, K Kostarelos, BJ Nelson… - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Micro‐/nanorobots (m‐bots) have attracted significant interest due to their suitability
for applications in biomedical engineering and environmental remediation. Particularly, their …

Smart materials for microrobots

F Soto, E Karshalev, F Zhang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the past 15 years, the field of microrobotics has exploded with many research groups
from around the globe contributing to numerous innovations that have led to exciting new …

Medical micro/nanorobots in precision medicine

F Soto, J Wang, R Ahmed, U Demirci - Advanced science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in medical robots promise to improve modern medicine and the quality of life.
Miniaturization of these robotic platforms has led to numerous applications that leverages …

Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …

Fuel‐free synthetic micro‐/nanomachines

T Xu, W Gao, LP Xu, X Zhang, S Wang - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the swimming of natural microorganisms, synthetic micro‐/nanomachines, which
convert energy into movement, are able to mimic the function of these amazing natural …

Ultrasonically propelled micro‐and nanorobots

J Li, CC Mayorga‐Martinez, CD Ohl… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrasound at sufficiently low amplitudes, specifically in the MHz frequency range, does little
harm to the biological samples (such as cells and tissues) and provides an advantageous …

Hybrid biomembrane–functionalized nanorobots for concurrent removal of pathogenic bacteria and toxins

B Esteban-Fernández de Ávila, P Angsantikul… - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
With the rapid advancement of robotic research, it becomes increasingly interesting and
important to develop biomimetic micro-or nanorobots that translate biological principles into …

Visible-light-driven BiOI-based Janus micromotor in pure water

R Dong, Y Hu, Y Wu, W Gao, B Ren… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Light-driven synthetic micro-/nanomotors have attracted considerable attention due to their
potential applications and unique performances such as remote motion control and …

Liquid metal–based soft microfluidics

L Zhu, B Wang, S Handschuh‐Wang, X Zhou - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by the increasing demand of wearable and soft electronics, liquid metal (LM)‐
based microfluidics has been subjected to tremendous development in the past decade …