Colloidal robotics

AT Liu, M Hempel, JF Yang, AM Brooks, A Pervan… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Robots have components that work together to accomplish a task. Colloids are particles,
usually less than 100 µm, that are small enough that they do not settle out of solution …

High energy density picoliter-scale zinc-air microbatteries for colloidal robotics

G Zhang, S Yang, JF Yang, D Gonzalez-Medrano… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
The recent interest in microscopic autonomous systems, including microrobots, colloidal
state machines, and smart dust, has created a need for microscale energy storage and …

Colloidal nanoelectronic state machines based on 2D materials for aerosolizable electronics

VB Koman, P Liu, D Kozawa, AT Liu, AL Cottrill… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A previously unexplored property of two-dimensional electronic materials is their ability to
graft electronic functionality onto colloidal particles to access local hydrodynamics in fluids to …

SynCells: A 60 × 60 μm2 Electronic Platform with Remote Actuation for Sensing Applications in Constrained Environments

M Hempel, V Schroeder, C Park, VB Koman, M Xue… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Autonomous electronic microsystems smaller than the diameter of a human hair (< 100 μm)
are promising for sensing in confined spaces such as microfluidic channels or the human …

A Highly Power-and Area-Efficient PMU for Cell-Size Autonomous Microsystems

J de Mena Pacheco, JM Carrillo… - … on Circuits and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power Management Units (PMU) are present in most electronic devices today. However, for
power and area constrained applications, their design becomes a real challenge, especially …

[HTML][HTML] A Highly Linear Ultra-Low-Area-and-Power CMOS Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Autonomous Microsystems

JM Pacheco, T Palacios, M Hempel, ML Vallejo - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) can be an excellent means of converting a magnitude
into a readable value. However, their design becomes a real challenge for power-and-area …

Technology and applications of 2D materials in micro-and macroscale electronics

M Hempel - 2020 - dspace.mit.edu
Over the past 50 years, electronics has truly revolutionized our lives. Today, many everyday
objects rely on electronic circuitry from gadgets such as wireless earbuds, smartphones and …