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

T Liu, L ** and detecting nanoplastics by MXene-derived oxide microrobots
M Urso, M Ussia, F Novotný, M Pumera - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Nanoplastic pollution, the final product of plastic waste fragmentation in the environment,
represents an increasing concern for the scientific community due to the easier diffusion and …

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 …

Intelligent micro‐/nanorobots for cancer theragnostic

J Wang, Y Dong, P Ma, Y Wang, F Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer is one of the most intractable diseases owing to its high mortality rate and lack of
effective diagnostic and treatment tools. Advancements in micro‐/nanorobot (MNR)‐assisted …

Open questions of chemically powered nano-and micromotors

W Wang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chemically powered nano-and micromotors are microscopic devices that convert chemical
energy into motion. Interest in these motors has grown over the past 20 years because they …

Reconfiguration, camouflage, and color‐shifting for bioinspired adaptive hydrogel‐based millirobots

X Du, H Cui, T Xu, C Huang, Y Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nature provides much inspiration for develo** soft millirobots. However, compared with
smart and adaptations of lives in nature, these robotic systems still suffer from insufficiency of …

Collective behaviors of active matter learning from natural taxes across scales

F Ji, Y Wu, M Pumera, L Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Taxis orientation is common in microorganisms, and it provides feasible strategies to
operate active colloids as small‐scale robots. Collective taxes involve numerous units that …

Site-selective superassembly of a multilevel asymmetric nanomotor with wavelength-modulated propulsion mechanisms

T Liu, M Yan, S Zhou, Q Liang, Y He, X Zhang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Micro-/nanomotors with advanced motion manipulation have recently received mounting
interest; however, research focusing on the motion regulation strategies is still limited, as the …

A review of magnetic actuation systems and magnetically actuated guidewire-and catheter-based microrobots for vascular interventions

J Hwang, J Kim, H Choi - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2020 - Springer
Magnetic actuation techniques and microrobots have attracted considerable interest due to
their potential applications in biomedicine. Interventional techniques have emerged as a …