Water is an essential part of life and its availability is important for all living creatures. On the other side, the world is suffering from a major problem of drinking water. There are several …
Ubiquitous pollution by microplastics is causing significant deleterious effects on marine life and human health through the food chain and has become a big challenge for the global …
Nature presents the collective behavior of living organisms aiming to accomplish complex tasks, inspiring the development of cooperative micro/nanorobots. Herein, the spontaneous …
M Urso, M Ussia, M Pumera - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing use of polymers has led to an uncontrollable accumulation of polymer waste in the environment, evidencing the urgent need for effective and definitive strategies to …
M Ussia, M Urso, K Dolezelikova… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial biofilms are multicellular communities firmly attached to solid extracellular substrates. They are considered the primary cause of huge economic losses, from medicine …
Self-propelled micromachines have recently attracted attention for environmental remediation, yet their use for radioactive waste management has not been addressed …
E Ma, K Wang, Z Hu, H Wang - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotics as emerging pollutants in water pose great risks to human health. Due to their persistence in the environment, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have been proposed …
R Wu, Y Zhu, X Cai, S Wu, L Xu, T Yu - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, robots have assisted and contributed to the biomedical field. Scaling down the size of robots to micro/nanoscale can increase the accuracy of targeted medications and …
Y Wu, Z Song, G Deng, K Jiang, H Wang, X Zhang… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection has≈ 75% probability of causing gastric cancer, so it is considered to be the strongest single risk factor for gastric malignancies. However, the …