Advances in chemically powered micro/nanorobots for biological applications: a review

Y Feng, M An, Y Liu, MT Sarwar… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Micro/nanorobots (MNRs) are capable of autonomous motion, breaking through the
limitations of traditional passive transport of nanocarriers. Among them, chemically driven …

Towards multifunctional robotic pills

R Mundaca-Uribe, N Askarinam, RH Fang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Robotic pills leverage the advantages of oral pharmaceutical formulations—in particular,
convenient encapsulation, high loading capacity, ease of manufacturing and high patient …

RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract

SS Srinivasan, A Alshareef, AV Hwang, Z Kang… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
Oral drug delivery of proteins is limited by the degradative environment of the
gastrointestinal tract and poor absorption, requiring parenteral administration of these drugs …

Near‐Infrared Light‐Driven Mesoporous SiO2/Au Nanomotors for Eradication of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm

T Maric, A Løvind, Z Zhang, J Geng… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial biofilms are linked to several diseases and cause resistant and chronic infections
in immune‐compromised patients. Nanomotors comprise a new field of research showing a …

Janus micro/nanorobots in biomedical applications

H Su, S Li, GZ Yang, K Qian - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Janus particles possess two or more distinct domains that are anisotropic in composition or
surface features. They integrate different or even incompatible properties within a single …

Hierarchical hollow α-Fe2O3/ZnFe2O4/Mn2O3 Janus micromotors as dynamic and efficient microcleaners for enhanced photo-Fenton elimination of organic pollutants

W Yang, C Xu, Y Lyu, Z Lan, J Li, DHL Ng - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Micro/nanomotors that can promote mass transport have attracted more and more research
concern in the photocatalysis field. Here we first report a newly-designed hierarchical α-Fe 2 …

Recent developments in metallic degradable micromotors for biomedical and environmental remediation applications

S Dutta, S Noh, RS Gual, X Chen, S Pané, BJ Nelson… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Synthetic micromotor has gained substantial attention in biomedicine and environmental
remediation. Metal-based degradable micromotor composed of magnesium (Mg), zinc (Zn) …

Bubble-based microrobot: Recent progress and future perspective

W Wang, Y He, H Liu, Q Guo, Z Ge, W Yang - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, microbubbles, as a new tool to operate in microfluidic chips, have attracted
more and more attention due to their good biocompatibility, convenient manufacture, and …

Magnetite‐based Janus nanoparticles, their synthesis and biomedical applications

M Madadi, S Khoee - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of Janus nanoparticles has been a great breakthrough in the emerging field of
nanomaterials. Janus nanoparticles refer to a single structure with two distinct chemical …

A drug co-delivery platform made of magnesium-based micromotors enhances combination therapy for hepatoma carcinoma cells

Q Song, Y Liu, X Ding, M Feng, J Li, W Liu, B Wang… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Combination therapy is an emerging strategy to overcome multidrug resistance (MDR) in
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) chemotherapy treatment. However, the passive diffusion in …