[HTML][HTML] Medical micro-and nanomotors in the body

H Li, F Peng, X Yan, C Mao, X Ma, DA Wilson… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
Attributed to the miniaturized body size and active mobility, micro-and nanomotors (MNMs)
have demonstrated tremendous potential for medical applications. However, from bench to …

Engineering of self‐propelling microbots and microdevices powered by magnetic and electric fields

K Han, CW Shields IV, OD Velev - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the last two decades, advances in micro‐and nanofabrication have enabled the
development of a wide variety of active or “self‐propelling” microparticles, which convert …

Shape-encoded dynamic assembly of mobile micromachines

Y Alapan, B Yigit, O Beker, AF Demirörs, M Sitti - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Field-directed and self-propelled colloidal assembly have been used to build
micromachines capable of performing complex motions and functions. However, integrating …

Wireless manipulation of magnetic/piezoelectric micromotors for precise neural stem‐like cell stimulation

L Liu, B Chen, K Liu, J Gao, Y Ye… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Precise neural electrical stimulation, which is a means of promoting neuronal regeneration,
is a promising solution for patients with neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases. In …

Roads to smart artificial microswimmers

ACH Tsang, E Demir, Y Ding… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial microswimmers offer exciting opportunities for biomedical applications. The goal of
these synthetics is to swim like natural micro‐organisms through biological environments …

Hierarchical microswarms with leader–follower‐like structures: electrohydrodynamic self‐organization and multimode collective photoresponses

X Liang, F Mou, Z Huang, J Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Swarming micro/nanomotors can self‐organize into cohesive groups to execute cooperative
tasks. To date, research work has focused on the construction of egalitarian microswarms …

[HTML][HTML] Reconfigurable artificial microswimmers with internal feedback

L Alvarez, MA Fernandez-Rodriguez, A Alegria… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Self-propelling microparticles are often proposed as synthetic models for biological
microswimmers, yet they lack the internally regulated adaptation of their biological …

[HTML][HTML] The parental active model: A unifying stochastic description of self-propulsion

L Caprini, AR Sprenger, H Löwen… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a new overarching model for self-propelled particles that flexibly generates a
full family of “descendants.” The general dynamics introduced in this paper, which we …

Active patchy colloids with shape-tunable dynamics

Z Wang, Z Wang, J Li, STH Cheung… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Controlling the complex dynamics of active colloids—the autonomous locomotion of
colloidal particles and their spontaneous assembly—is challenging yet crucial for creating …

A guide to design the trajectory of active particles: From fundamentals to applications

A Al Harraq, M Bello, B Bharti - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Active particles convert external energy into motility, displaying a variety of dynamical
features. Recent progress in the field has marked a shift in focus from understanding the …