Topological active matter

S Shankar, A Souslov, MJ Bowick, MC Marchetti… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces
or motion at the microscale, leading to morphological features and transport properties that …

Learning without neurons in physical systems

M Stern, A Murugan - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Learning is traditionally studied in biological or computational systems. The power of
learning frameworks in solving hard inverse problems provides an appealing case for the …

Autonomous environment-adaptive microrobot swarm navigation enabled by deep learning-based real-time distribution planning

L Yang, J Jiang, X Gao, Q Wang, Q Dou… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Navigating a large swarm of micro-/nanorobots is critical for potential targeted
delivery/therapy applications owing to the limited volume/function of a single microrobot, and …

Roadmap for optical tweezers

G Volpe, OM Maragò… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trap**, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

Physics-informed learning of governing equations from scarce data

Z Chen, Y Liu, H Sun - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Harnessing data to discover the underlying governing laws or equations that describe the
behavior of complex physical systems can significantly advance our modeling, simulation …

Objective comparison of methods to decode anomalous diffusion

G Muñoz-Gil, G Volpe, MA Garcia-March… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Deviations from Brownian motion leading to anomalous diffusion are found in transport
dynamics from quantum physics to life sciences. The characterization of anomalous diffusion …

Autonomous 3D positional control of a magnetic microrobot using reinforcement learning

SA Abbasi, A Ahmed, S Noh, NL Gharamaleki… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Magnetic microrobots have shown promise in the field of biomedical engineering, facilitating
precise drug delivery, non-invasive diagnosis and cell-based therapy. Current techniques …

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 …

Heat-mediated optical manipulation

Z Chen, J Li, Y Zheng - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Simulation intelligence: Towards a new generation of scientific methods

A Lavin, D Krakauer, H Zenil, J Gottschlich… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The original" Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific
computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation …