Controlled propulsion of micro/nanomotors: operational mechanisms, motion manipulation and potential biomedical applications

T Liu, L Xie, CAH Price, J Liu, Q He… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by natural mobile microorganisms, researchers have developed micro/nanomotors
(MNMs) that can autonomously move by transducing different kinds of energies into kinetic …

Smart materials for microrobots

F Soto, E Karshalev, F Zhang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the past 15 years, the field of microrobotics has exploded with many research groups
from around the globe contributing to numerous innovations that have led to exciting new …

Medical micro/nanorobots in precision medicine

F Soto, J Wang, R Ahmed, U Demirci - Advanced science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in medical robots promise to improve modern medicine and the quality of life.
Miniaturization of these robotic platforms has led to numerous applications that leverages …

Lighting up micro-/nanorobots with fluorescence

M Yang, X Guo, F Mou, J Guan - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Micro-/nanorobots (MNRs) can be autonomously propelled on demand in complex
biological environments and thus may bring revolutionary changes to biomedicines …

Electronically integrated, mass-manufactured, microscopic robots

MZ Miskin, AJ Cortese, K Dorsey, EP Esposito… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fifty years of Moore's law scaling in microelectronics have brought remarkable opportunities
for the rapidly evolving field of microscopic robotics,,,–. Electronic, magnetic and optical …

Autonomous metal-organic framework nanorobots for active mitochondria-targeted cancer therapy

X Peng, S Tang, D Tang, D Zhou, Y Li, Q Chen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Nanorobotic manipulation to access subcellular organelles remains unmet due to the
challenge in achieving intracellular controlled propulsion. Intracellular organelles, such as …

External power-driven microrobotic swarm: from fundamental understanding to imaging-guided delivery

Q Wang, L Zhang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Untethered micro/nanorobots have been widely investigated owing to their potential in
performing various tasks in different environments. The significant progress in this emerging …

Micro/nanorobots for biomedicine: Delivery, surgery, sensing, and detoxification

J Li, B Esteban-Fernández de Ávila, W Gao, L Zhang… - Science robotics, 2017 - science.org
Micro-and nanoscale robots that can effectively convert diverse energy sources into
movement and force represent a rapidly emerging and fascinating robotics research area …

Biomedical micro‐/nanomotors: from overcoming biological barriers to in vivo imaging

C Gao, Y Wang, Z Ye, Z Lin, X Ma, Q He - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐propelled micro‐and nanomotors (MNMs) have shown great potential for applications
in the biomedical field, such as active targeted delivery, detoxification, minimally invasive …

Light-driven micro/nanomotors: from fundamentals to applications

L Xu, F Mou, H Gong, M Luo, J Guan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Light, as an external stimulus, is capable of driving the motion of micro/nanomotors (MNMs)
with the advantages of reversible, wireless and remote manoeuvre on demand with …