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 …

Multimodal collective swimming of magnetically articulated modular nanocomposite robots

S Won, HE Lee, YS Cho, K Yang, JE Park… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetically responsive composites can impart maneuverability to miniaturized robots.
However, collective actuation of these composite robots has rarely been achieved, although …

CeFlowBot: a biomimetic flow‐driven microrobot that navigates under magneto‐acoustic fields

S Mohanty, A Paul, PM Matos, J Zhang, J Sikorski… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic organisms within the Cephalopoda family (eg, octopuses, squids, cuttlefish) exist
that draw the surrounding fluid inside their bodies and expel it in a single jet thrust to swim …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustically-actuated bubble-powered rotational micro-propellers

S Mohanty, J Zhang, JM McNeill, T Kuenen… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bubble-powered acoustic microsystems span a plethora of applications that range from lab-
on-chip diagnostic platforms to targeted interventions as microrobots. Numerous studies …

Magnetic-driven 3D-printed biodegradable swimming microrobots

J Chen, H Hu, Y Wang - Smart Materials and Structures, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A magnetic object subject to an external rotating magnetic field would be rotated due to the
alignment tendency between its internal magnetization and the field. Based on this principle …

[HTML][HTML] Nature-inspired miniaturized magnetic soft robotic swimmers

R Pramanik, R Verstappen, PR Onck - Applied Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
State-of-the-art biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery and laparoscopic
surgery are extremely challenging because of the small length scales, the requirements of …

Artificial flexible sperm-like nanorobot based on self-assembly and its bidirectional propulsion in precessing magnetic fields

N Celi, D Gong, J Cai - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Sperm cells can move at a high speed in biofluids based on the flexible flagella, which
inspire novel flagellar micro-/nanorobots to be designed. Despite progress in fabricating …

Acoustically actuated flow in microrobots powered by axisymmetric resonant bubbles

S Mohanty, YH Lin, A Paul… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bubble‐driven microsystems inspired by the therapeutic use of microbubbles under clinical
ultrasound actuation offer innovative remote manipulation in biological settings. Ultrasound …

Biohybrid Flexible Sperm-like Microrobot for Targeted Chemo-Photothermal Therapy

N Celi, J Cai, H Sun, L Feng, D Zhang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Magnetic micro/nanorobots are promising platforms for targeted drug delivery, and their
construction with soft and flexible features has received extensive attention for practical …

Propulsion of an elastic filament in a shear-thinning fluid

K Qin, Z Peng, Y Chen, H Nganguia, L Zhu, OS Pak - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Some micro-organisms and artificial micro-swimmers propel at low Reynolds numbers (Re)
via the interaction of their flexible appendages with the surrounding fluid. While their …