Mechanically-guided 3D assembly for architected flexible electronics

R Bo, S Xu, Y Yang, Y Zhang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Architected flexible electronic devices with rationally designed 3D geometries have found
essential applications in biology, medicine, therapeutics, sensing/imaging, energy, robotics …

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 …

Mucosa-interfacing electronics

K Nan, VR Feig, B Ying, JG Howarth, Z Kang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The surface mucosa that lines many of our organs houses myriad biometric signals and,
therefore, has great potential as a sensor–tissue interface for high-fidelity and long-term …

A magnetically guided self‐rolled microrobot for targeted drug delivery, real‐time X‐Ray imaging, and microrobot retrieval

KT Nguyen, G Go, Z Jin, BA Darmawan… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Targeted drug delivery using a microrobot is a promising technique capable of overcoming
the limitations of conventional chemotherapy that relies on body circulation. However, most …

Design, manufacturing and applications of small-scale magnetic soft robots

M Eshaghi, M Ghasemi, K Khorshidi - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
During past few years, applications of untethered magnetically controlled soft robots in the
biomedical operations have been extensively reported, which is attributed to the efficient …

Review of the applications of micro/nanorobots in biomedicine

H Zhang, J Tang, H Cao, C Wang… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The advancement of precision medicine in modern biomedicine has been significantly
propelled by the emergence of micro/nanorobots. The combination of micro/nanorobots and …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogel-based stimuli-responsive micromotors for biomedicine

H Zhou, G Dong, G Gao, R Du, X Tang… - Cyborg and Bionic …, 2022 - spj.science.org
The rapid development of medical micromotors draws a beautiful blueprint for the
noninvasive or minimally invasive diagnosis and therapy. By combining stimuli-sensitive …

Smart film actuators for biomedical applications

Z Zhang, Y Wang, Q Wang, L Shang - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Taking inspiration from the extremely flexible motion abilities in natural organisms, soft
actuators have emerged in the past few decades. Particularly, smart film actuators (SFAs) …

Automated microrobotic manipulation using reconfigurable magnetic microswarms

J Jiang, L Yang, B Hao, T Xu, X Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Untethered microrobots possess a promising perspective for micromanipulation
applications. With specifically designed morphologies and structures, microrobots are able …

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 …