Magnetically driven micro and nanorobots

H Zhou, CC Mayorga-Martinez, S Pané… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Manipulation and navigation of micro and nanoswimmers in different fluid environments can
be achieved by chemicals, external fields, or even motile cells. Many researchers have …

Engineering microrobots for targeted cancer therapies from a medical perspective

CK Schmidt, M Medina-Sánchez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Systemic chemotherapy remains the backbone of many cancer treatments. Due to its
untargeted nature and the severe side effects it can cause, numerous nanomedicine …

3D printing of functional microrobots

J Li, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototy**”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

Statistical mechanics of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles

D Martin, J O'Byrne, ME Cates, É Fodor, C Nardini… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study the statistical properties of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles (AOUPs). In this
simplest of models, the Gaussian white noise of overdamped Brownian colloids is replaced …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-material multi-photon 3D laser micro-and nanoprinting

L Yang, F Mayer, UHF Bunz, E Blasco… - Light: Advanced …, 2021 - light-am.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) laser micro-and nanoprinting based upon multi-photon
absorption has made its way from early scientific discovery to industrial manufacturing …

Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots

C Hong, Z Ren, C Wang, M Li, Y Wu, D Tang, W Hu… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
The limited force or torque outputs of miniature magnetic actuators constrain the locomotion
performances and functionalities of magnetic millimeter-scale robots. Here, we present a …

Biohybrid robotics with living cell actuation

L Sun, Y Yu, Z Chen, F Bian, F Ye, L Sun… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
As simulators of organisms in Nature, soft robots have been developed over the past few
decades. In particular, biohybrid robots constructed by integrating living cells with soft …

4D printing at the microscale

CA Spiegel, M Hippler, A Münchinger… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D printing of adaptive and dynamic structures, also known as 4D printing, is one of
the key challenges in contemporary materials science. The additional dimension refers to …

Rotating robots move collectively and self-organize

C Scholz, M Engel, T Pöschel - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Biological organisms and artificial active particles self-organize into swarms and patterns.
Open questions concern the design of emergent phenomena by choosing appropriate forms …