Materials for smart soft actuator systems

I Apsite, S Salehi, L Ionov - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

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 …

Advanced materials for micro/nanorobotics

J Kim, P Mayorga-Burrezo, SJ Song… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Autonomous micro/nanorobots capable of performing programmed missions are at the
forefront of next-generation micromachinery. These small robotic systems are predominantly …

Magnetic actuation methods in bio/soft robotics

N Ebrahimi, C Bi, DJ Cappelleri, G Ciuti… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers
for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic …

Nanomagnetic encoding of shape-morphing micromachines

J Cui, TY Huang, Z Luo, P Testa, H Gu, XZ Chen… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Shape-morphing systems, which can perform complex tasks through morphological
transformations, are of great interest for future applications in minimally invasive medicine …

Biohybrid robots: recent progress, challenges, and perspectives

VA Webster-Wood, M Guix, NW Xu… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The past ten years have seen the rapid expansion of the field of biohybrid robotics. By
combining engineered, synthetic components with living biological materials, new robotics …

MnO2-Based Nanomotors with Active Fenton-like Mn2+ Delivery for Enhanced Chemodynamic Therapy

J Ou, H Tian, J Wu, J Gao, J Jiang, K Liu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) is an emerging strategy for cancer treatment based on
Fenton chemistry, which can convert endogenous H2O2 into toxic· OH. However, the limited …

Bioinspired microrobots

S Palagi, P Fischer - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Microorganisms can move in complex media, respond to the environment and self-organize.
The field of microrobotics strives to achieve these functions in mobile robotic systems of sub …

Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

H Ceylan, J Giltinan, K Kozielski, M Sitti - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Untethered micron-scale mobile robots can navigate and non-invasively perform specific
tasks inside unprecedented and hard-to-reach inner human body sites and inside enclosed …

Multifunctional 4D‐printed sperm‐hybrid microcarriers for assisted reproduction

F Rajabasadi, S Moreno, K Fichna, A Aziz… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Remotely controllable microrobots are appealing for various biomedical in vivo applications.
In particular, in recent years, our group has focused on develo** sperm‐microcarriers to …