Two‐photon polymerization lithography for optics and photonics: fundamentals, materials, technologies, and applications

H Wang, W Zhang, D Ladika, H Yu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of additive manufacturing has fueled a revolution in various research
fields and industrial applications. Among the myriad of advanced 3D printing techniques …

Magnetically driven micro and nanorobots

H Zhou, CC Mayorga-Martinez, S Pané… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Manipulation and navigation of micro and nanoswimmers in different fluid environments can
be achieved by chemicals, external fields, or even motile cells. Many researchers have …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing self-powered robotic systems with triboelectric nanogenerators

S Hajra, S Panda, H Khanberh, V Vivekananthan… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), offering self-powered actuation, grasping, and
sensing capabilities without the need for an external power source, have the potential to …

Pros and cons: Magnetic versus optical microrobots

M Sitti, DS Wiersma - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile microrobotics has emerged as a new robotics field within the last decade to create
untethered tiny robots that can access and operate in unprecedented, dangerous, or hard‐to …

Stimuli‐responsive photonic actuators for integrated biomimetic and intelligent systems

J Gao, Y Tang, D Martella, J Guo… - Responsive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic actuators, serving as an emerging kind of intelligent stimuli‐responsive material,
can exhibit the abilities to change their structural colors/fluorescence and shapes under …

Femtosecond laser programmed artificial musculoskeletal systems

ZC Ma, YL Zhang, B Han, XY Hu, CH Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Natural musculoskeletal systems have been widely recognized as an advanced robotic
model for designing robust yet flexible microbots. However, the development of artificial …

Light-powered self-oscillation in liquid crystal elastomer auxetic metamaterials with large volume change

L Zhou, Y Dai, J Fang, K Li - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-oscillation can harvest energy directly from the environment to maintain its motion and
is characterized by its autonomy, with various promising applications in the fields of …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-material multi-photon 3D laser micro-and nanoprinting

L Yang, F Mayer, UHF Bunz, E Blasco… - Light: Advanced …, 2021 - light-am.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) laser micro-and nanoprinting based upon multi-photon
absorption has made its way from early scientific discovery to industrial manufacturing …

Light-fuelled freestyle self-oscillators

H Zeng, M Lahikainen, L Liu, Z Ahmed… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Self-oscillation is a phenomenon where an object sustains periodic motion upon non-
periodic stimulus. It occurs commonly in nature, a few examples being heartbeat, sea waves …

Light‐powered microrobots: challenges and opportunities for hard and soft responsive microswimmers

AI Bunea, D Martella, S Nocentini… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide research in microrobotics has exploded in the past two decades, leading to the
development of microrobots propelled in various manners. Despite significant advances in …