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 …

Magnetic helical micro-/nanomachines: Recent progress and perspective

Y Dong, L Wang, V Iacovacci, X Wang, L Zhang… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Inspired by bacterial flagella, helical micro-/nanomachines (H-MNMs) can achieve
controllable 3D movement by converting rotational motion to translation in a corkscrew …

Multifunctional microrobot with real-time visualization and magnetic resonance imaging for chemoembolization therapy of liver cancer

G Go, A Yoo, KT Nguyen, M Nan, BA Darmawan… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Microrobots that can be precisely guided to target lesions have been studied for in vivo
medical applications. However, existing microrobots have challenges in vivo such as …

A review of advanced multifunctional magnetic nanostructures for cancer diagnosis and therapy integrated into an artificial intelligence approach

B Govindan, MA Sabri, A Hai, F Banat, MA Haija - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The new era of nanomedicine offers significant opportunities for cancer diagnostics and
treatment. Magnetic nanoplatforms could be highly effective tools for cancer diagnosis and …

Magnetic-responsive hydrogels: From strategic design to biomedical applications

Z Li, Y Li, C Chen, Y Cheng - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
Smart hydrogels which can respond to external stimuli have been widely focused with
increasing interest. Thereinto, magnetic-responsive hydrogels that are prepared by …

Magnetically actuated drug delivery helical microrobot with magnetic nanoparticle retrieval ability

H Lee, D Kim, S Kwon, S Park - ACS applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Therapeutic drug delivery microrobots capable of accurate targeting using an
electromagnetic actuation (EMA) system are being developed. However, these drug delivery …

Recent advances in microswimmers for biomedical applications

AI Bunea, R Taboryski - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microswimmers are a rapidly develo** research area attracting enormous attention
because of their many potential applications with high societal value. A particularly …

A discrete model for the geometrically nonlinear mechanics of hard-magnetic slender structures

W Huang, M Liu, KJ Hsia - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Hard-magnetic soft (HMS) materials and structures, which can undergo rapid configurational
transformation under non-contact magnetic stimuli, have attracted extensive attentions in a …

3D printed template‐assisted casting of biocompatible polyvinyl alcohol‐based soft microswimmers with tunable stability

R Sanchis‐Gual, H Ye, T Ueno… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has seen an upsurge in the development of small‐scale magnetic robots
for various biomedical applications. However, many of the reported designs comprise …

Magnetically Driven Self‐Degrading Zinc‐Containing Cystine Microrobots for Treatment of Prostate Cancer

M Ussia, M Urso, M Kratochvilova, J Navratil, J Balvan… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed tumor disease in men, and its treatment is
still a big challenge in standard oncology therapy. Magnetically actuated microrobots …