Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …

Biodegradable magnetic hydrogel robot with multimodal locomotion for targeted cargo delivery

X Chen, C Tian, H Zhang, H **e - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent strides in the development of untethered miniature robots have shown the
advantages of diverse actuation methods, flexible maneuverability, and precise locomotion …

Modular strategies to build cell-free and cell-laden scaffolds towards bioengineered tissues and organs

A Salerno, G Cesarelli, P Pedram, PA Netti - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2019 - mdpi.com
Engineering three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds for functional tissue and organ regeneration is
a major challenge of the tissue engineering (TE) community. Great progress has been made …

Magnetic/pH-sensitive double-layer microrobots for drug delivery and sustained release

W Chen, M Sun, X Fan, H **e - Applied Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Remarkable evolution of drug-loaded microrobots has aroused growing interest in targeted
therapy. However, existing microrobots encounter a number of challenges including …

Multi‐degree‐of‐freedom robots powered and controlled by microwaves

Y Li, J Wu, P Yang, L Song, J Wang, Z **ng… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microwaves have become a promising wireless driving strategy due to the advantages of
transmissivity through obstacles, fast energy targeting, and selective heating. Although there …

Integrated assembly and flexible movement of microparts using multifunctional bubble microrobots

L Dai, D Lin, X Wang, N Jiao, L Liu - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Industrial robots have been widely used for manufacturing and assembly in factories.
However, at the microscale, most assembly technologies can only pattern the micromodules …

Magnetically actuated intelligent hydrogel-based child-parent microrobots for targeted drug delivery

W Chen, Y Wen, X Fan, M Sun, C Tian… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Small intestine-targeted drug delivery by oral administration has aroused the growing
interest of researchers. In this work, the child-parent microrobot (CPM) as a vehicle protects …

Deformable ferrofluid-based millirobot with high motion accuracy and high output force

D Chen, Z Yang, Y Ji, Y Dai, L Feng, F Arai - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The magnetically actuated robot has valuable potential in biomedicine, bioengineering, and
biophysics for its capability to precisely manipulate particles or biological tissues. However …

Multi-functionalized micro-helical capsule robots with superior loading and releasing capabilities

Y Liu, Y Yang, X Yang, L Yang, Y Shen… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The functionalization of microrobots is essential for realizing their biomedical application in
targeted cargo delivery, but the multifunctional integration of microrobots and controllable …

Untethered octopus‐inspired millirobot actuated by regular tetrahedron arranged magnetic field

Y Dai, S Liang, Y Chen, Y Feng, D Chen… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible magnetic small‐scale robots (overall dimensions smaller than 1 cm) can use a
patterned magnetization profile to noninvasively access a confined, enclosed liquid …