Surface design for antibacterial materials: from fundamentals to advanced strategies

W Li, ES Thian, M Wang, Z Wang, L Ren - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Healthcare‐acquired infections as well as increasing antimicrobial resistance have become
an urgent global challenge, thus smart alternative solutions are needed to tackle bacterial …

Control and autonomy of microrobots: Recent progress and perspective

J Jiang, Z Yang, A Ferreira… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of development, microrobots have exhibited great application potential in the
biomedical field, such as minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, and bio‐sensing …

Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow

BS Luk'yanchuk, R Paniagua-Domínguez… - Optical Materials …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Materials with relatively small refractive indices (n< 2), such as glass, quartz, polymers,
some ceramics, etc., are the basic materials in most optical components (lenses, optical …

Hybrid biomembrane–functionalized nanorobots for concurrent removal of pathogenic bacteria and toxins

B Esteban-Fernández de Ávila, P Angsantikul… - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
With the rapid advancement of robotic research, it becomes increasingly interesting and
important to develop biomimetic micro-or nanorobots that translate biological principles into …

Progress toward catalytic micro‐and nanomotors for biomedical and environmental applications

M Safdar, SU Khan, J Jänis - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic micro‐and nanomotors (MNMs) are tiny objects that can autonomously move
under the influence of an appropriate source of energy, such as a chemical fuel, magnetic …

Magnetocatalytic graphene quantum dots Janus micromotors for bacterial endotoxin detection

B Jurado‐Sánchez, M Pacheco, J Rojo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetocatalytic hybrid Janus micromotors encapsulating phenylboronic acid (PABA)
modified graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are described herein as ultrafast sensors for the …

Hybrid membrane-coated biomimetic nanoparticles (HM@ BNPs): a multifunctional nanomaterial for biomedical applications

Y Zhao, A Li, L Jiang, Y Gu, J Liu - Biomacromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
The application of nanoparticles in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases has undergone
different developmental stages, but phagocytosis and nonspecific distribution have been the …

Microsphere enhanced optical imaging and patterning: From physics to applications

L Chen, Y Zhou, Y Li, M Hong - Applied Physics Reviews, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical science and engineering. It limits the
minimum feature size in surface patterning technologies, such as lithography and laser …

Biomimetic platelet‐camouflaged nanorobots for binding and isolation of biological threats

J Li, P Angsantikul, W Liu… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
One emerging and exciting topic in robotics research is the design of micro‐/nanoscale
robots for biomedical operations. Unlike industrial robots that are developed primarily to …

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 …