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 …

External power-driven microrobotic swarm: from fundamental understanding to imaging-guided delivery

Q Wang, L Zhang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Untethered micro/nanorobots have been widely investigated owing to their potential in
performing various tasks in different environments. The significant progress in this emerging …

Autonomous Treatment of Bacterial Infections in Vivo Using Antimicrobial Micro- and Nanomotors

X Arqué, MDT Torres, T Patiño, A Boaro, S Sánchez… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The increasing resistance of bacteria to existing antibiotics constitutes a major public health
threat globally. Most current antibiotic treatments are hindered by poor delivery to the …

Biosafety, functionalities, and applications of biomedical micro/nanomotors

M Wan, T Li, H Chen, C Mao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their unique ability to actively move, micro/nanomotors offer the possibility of
breaking through the limitations of traditional passive drug delivery systems for the treatment …

Nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis, radionuclide therapy and theranostics

J Llop, T Lammers - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles have unique properties that can be exploited for cancer diagnosis and
therapy. Intravenously injected nanoparticles accumulate predominantly in organs of the …

Transforming nuclear medicine with nanoradiopharmaceuticals

I Roy, S Krishnan, AV Kabashin, IN Zavestovskaya… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nuclear medicine is expected to make major advances in cancer diagnosis and therapy;
tumor-targeted radiopharmaceuticals preferentially eradicate tumors while causing minimal …

In vivo applications of micro/nanorobots

CM Oral, M Pumera - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Untethered robots in the size range of micro/nano-scale offer unprecedented access to hard-
to-reach areas of the body. In these challenging environments, autonomous task completion …

A journey of nanomotors for targeted cancer therapy: principles, challenges, and a critical review of the state‐of‐the‐art

W Wang, C Zhou - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A nanomotor is a miniaturized device that converts energy stored in the environment into
mechanical motion. The last two decades have witnessed a surge of research interests in …