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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Photo-and redox-driven artificial molecular motors

M Baroncini, S Silvi, A Credi - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Directed motion at the nanoscale is a central attribute of life, and chemically driven motor
proteins are nature's choice to accomplish it. Motivated and inspired by such …

A microrobotic system guided by photoacoustic computed tomography for targeted navigation in intestines in vivo

Z Wu, L Li, Y Yang, P Hu, Y Li, SY Yang, LV Wang… - Science robotics, 2019 - science.org
Recently, tremendous progress in synthetic micro/nanomotors in diverse environment has
been made for potential biomedical applications. However, existing micro/nanomotor …

Biomedical micro‐/nanomotors: from overcoming biological barriers to in vivo imaging

C Gao, Y Wang, Z Ye, Z Lin, X Ma, Q He - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐propelled micro‐and nanomotors (MNMs) have shown great potential for applications
in the biomedical field, such as active targeted delivery, detoxification, minimally invasive …

Technologies for improving buildability in 3D concrete printing

S Muthukrishnan, S Ramakrishnan… - Cement and Concrete …, 2021 - Elsevier
Buildability is the ability to 3D print by adding concrete layer by layer continuously to the
required level without significant deformation or collapse of the freshly printed component …

MOF-based micro/nanomotors (MOFtors): Recent progress and challenges

H Yang, L Wang, X Huang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Micro/nanomotors (MNMs) are burgeoning micro/nanoscale devices with plentiful
applications ranging from biomedicine to environmental remediation. However, some urgent …