Untethered microrobots for active drug delivery: from rational design to clinical settings

D Liu, T Wang, Y Lu - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances of untethered microrobots, which navigate the complex regions in vivo for
therapeutics, have presented promising multiple applications on future healthcare …

Shape‐Changing Particles: From Materials Design and Mechanisms to Implementation

N Tanjeem, MB Minnis, RC Hayward… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Demands for next‐generation soft and responsive materials have sparked recent interest in
the development of shape‐changing particles and particle assemblies. Over the last two …

A microrobotic platform actuated by thermocapillary flows for manipulation at the air-water interface

FN Piñan Basualdo, A Bolopion, M Gauthier… - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Future developments in micromanufacturing will require advances in micromanipulation
tools. Several robotic micromanipulation methods have been developed to position micro …

Design of an electromagnetic setup for independent three-dimensional control of pairs of identical and nonidentical microrobots

F Ongaro, S Pane, S Scheggi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Independent control of microrobots is a cardinal challenge for manipulation at micro/nano
scale. In this paper, we design and assemble an electromagnetic setup to overcome some of …

Untethered single cell grippers for active biopsy

Q Jin, Y Yang, JA Jackson, CK Yoon, DH Gracias - Nano letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single cell manipulation is important in biosensing, biorobotics, and quantitative cell
analysis. Although microbeads, droplets, and microrobots have been developed previously …

Magnetically Steerable Serial and Parallel Structures by Mold‐Free Origami Templating and Domain Setting

BS Yeow, H Yang… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetically responsive elastomers generate continuous motions and locomotion through
changes in external magnetic fields. The magnetic particles in an elastomer achieve shape …

Untethered Microgrippers for Precision Medicine

H Zhou, S Zhang, Z Liu, B Chi, J Li, Y Wang - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microgrippers, a branch of micro/nanorobots, refer to motile miniaturized machines that are
of a size in the range of several to hundreds of micrometers. Compared with tethered …

A Magnetic Bio‐Inspired Soft Carrier as a Temperature‐Controlled Gastrointestinal Drug Delivery System

CM Heunis, Z Wang, G de Vente… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, gastrointestinal bleeding in the colon wall and the small bowel is diagnosed and
treated with endoscopes. However, the locations of this condition are often problematic to …

Atomic layer deposition for membranes, metamaterials, and mechanisms

KJ Dorsey, TG Pearson, E Esposito… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bending and folding techniques such as origami and kirigami enable the scale‐invariant
design of 3D structures, metamaterials, and robots from 2D starting materials. These design …

Untethered shape-changing devices in the gastrointestinal tract

W Liu, SJ Choi, D George, L Li, Z Zhong… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Advances in microfabrication, automation, and computer engineering seek to
revolutionize small-scale devices and machines. Emerging trends in medicine point to smart …