Micro/nanofabrication, assembly, and actuation based on microorganisms: Recent advances and perspectives

D Gong, L Sun, X Li, W Zhang, D Zhang… - Small Structures, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms become new sources for fabricating intricate micro/nano structures via
bottom‐up approaches. Produced from nature, microorganism biotemplates exhibit unique …

Magnetic drug delivery: where the field is going

PM Price, WE Mahmoud, AA Al-Ghamdi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Targeted delivery of anticancer drugs is considered to be one of the pillars of cancer
treatment as it could allow for a better treatment efficiency and less adverse effects. A …

Micro‐/nanomotors toward biomedical applications: the recent progress in biocompatibility

J Ou, K Liu, J Jiang, DA Wilson, L Liu, F Wang, S Wang… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the highly versatile natural motors, artificial micro‐/nanomotors that can convert
surrounding energies into mechanical motion and accomplish multiple tasks are devised. In …

A brief review on challenges in design and development of nanorobots for medical applications

G Giri, Y Maddahi, K Zareinia - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Robotics is a rapidly growing field, and the innovative idea to scale down the size of robots
to the nanometer level has paved a new way of treating human health. Nanorobots have …

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 …

Coordinated behaviors of artificial micro/nanomachines: from mutual interactions to interactions with the environment

H Wang, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The coordinated behaviors of living organisms in nature have inspired the design of artificial
micro/nanomachines that mimics biological methods of group motion and responses to the …

Self‐propelled micro/nanomotors for sensing and environmental remediation

M Zarei, M Zarei - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐propelled micro/nanomotors have gained attention for successful application in cargo
delivery, therapeutic treatments, sensing, and environmental remediation. Unique …

A universal chemotactic targeted delivery strategy for inflammatory diseases

T Li, Z Liu, J Hu, L Chen, T Chen, Q Tang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Above 50% of deaths can be attributed to chronic inflammatory diseases; thus, the
construction of drug delivery systems based on effective interaction of inflammatory factors …

Cooperative multifunctional self‐propelled paramagnetic microrobots with chemical handles for cell manipulation and drug delivery

K Villa, L Krejčová, F Novotný, Z Heger… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous self‐propelled micromachines, taking energy from surrounding environment
and converting it to their motion, are on the forefront of the research for smart materials in the …

[HTML][HTML] Recent process in microrobots: From propulsion to swarming for biomedical applications

R Wu, Y Zhu, X Cai, S Wu, L Xu, T Yu - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, robots have assisted and contributed to the biomedical field. Scaling down the
size of robots to micro/nanoscale can increase the accuracy of targeted medications and …