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 …

Microfluidics for drug development: from synthesis to evaluation

Y Liu, L Sun, H Zhang, L Shang, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

Light-induced charged slippery surfaces

F Wang, M Liu, C Liu, Q Zhao, T Wang, Z Wang… - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Slippery lubricant-infused porous (SLIPS) and superhydrophobic surfaces have emerged as
promising interfacial materials for various applications such as self-cleaning, anti-icing, and …

Advances in biosensors and diagnostic technologies using nanostructures and nanomaterials

EC Welch, JM Powell, TB Clevinger… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoscale materials have unique properties that make them especially useful for
biomedical diagnostic applications. Recent developments in nanoengineering have resulted …

Ferrobotic swarms enable accessible and adaptable automated viral testing

H Lin, W Yu, K A. Sabet, M Bogumil, Y Zhao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Expanding our global testing capacity is critical to preventing and containing pandemics,,,,,,,–
. Accordingly, accessible and adaptable automated platforms that in decentralized settings …

Ionic-surfactant-mediated electro-dewetting for digital microfluidics

J Li, NS Ha, TL Liu, RM van Dam, CJ 'CJ'Kim - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The ability to manipulate droplets on a substrate using electric signals—known as digital
microfluidics—is used in optical,, biomedical,, thermal and electronic applications and has …

Wetting ridge assisted programmed magnetic actuation of droplets on ferrofluid-infused surface

J Zhang, X Wang, Z Wang, S Pan, B Yi, L Ai… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Flexible actuation of droplets is crucial for biomedical and industrial applications. Hence,
various approaches using optical, electrical, and magnetic forces have been exploited to …

Magnetic nanorobots as maneuverable immunoassay probes for automated and efficient enzyme linked immunosorbent assay

Y Wang, X Liu, C Chen, Y Chen, Y Li, H Ye, B Wang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
As a typical, classical, but powerful biochemical sensing technology in analytical chemistry,
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) shows excellence and wide practicability for …

High-throughput screening by droplet microfluidics: Perspective into key challenges and future prospects

EM Payne, DA Holland-Moritz, S Sun, RT Kennedy - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In two decades of development, impressive strides have been made for automating basic
laboratory operations in droplet-based microfluidics, allowing the emergence of a new form …