Engineering microrobots for targeted cancer therapies from a medical perspective

CK Schmidt, M Medina-Sánchez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Systemic chemotherapy remains the backbone of many cancer treatments. Due to its
untargeted nature and the severe side effects it can cause, numerous nanomedicine …

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 …

Dual-responsive biohybrid neutrobots for active target delivery

H Zhang, Z Li, C Gao, X Fan, Y Pang, T Li, Z Wu… - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Swimming biohybrid microsized robots (eg, bacteria-or sperm-driven microrobots) with self-
propelling and navigating capabilities have become an exciting field of research, thanks to …

Trapping and detecting nanoplastics by MXene-derived oxide microrobots

M Urso, M Ussia, F Novotný, M Pumera - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Nanoplastic pollution, the final product of plastic waste fragmentation in the environment,
represents an increasing concern for the scientific community due to the easier diffusion and …

Chemical fuels for molecular machinery

S Borsley, DA Leigh, BMW Roberts - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Chemical reaction networks that transform out-of-equilibrium 'fuel'to 'waste'are the engines
that power the biomolecular machinery of the cell. Inspired by such systems, autonomous …

3D printing of functional microrobots

J Li, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototyping”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

Advances of medical nanorobots for future cancer treatments

X Kong, P Gao, J Wang, Y Fang, KC Hwang - Journal of Hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Early detection and diagnosis of many cancers is very challenging. Late stage detection of a
cancer always leads to high mortality rates. It is imperative to develop novel and more …

Artificial cells: past, present and future

W Jiang, Z Wu, Z Gao, M Wan, M Zhou, C Mao… - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Artificial cells are constructed to imitate natural cells and allow researchers to explore
biological process and the origin of life. The construction methods for artificial cells, through …

Smart micro-and nanorobots for water purification

M Urso, M Ussia, M Pumera - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Less than 1% of Earth's freshwater reserves is accessible. Industrialization, population
growth and climate change are further exacerbating clean water shortage. Current water …

Superstructural ordering in self-sorting coacervate-based protocell networks

W Mu, L Jia, M Zhou, J Wu, Y Lin, S Mann, Y Qiao - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Bottom-up assembly of higher-order cytomimetic systems capable of coordinated physical
behaviours, collective chemical signalling and spatially integrated processing is a key …