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 …

Advances of medical nanorobots for future cancer treatments

X Kong, P Gao, J Wang, Y Fang, KC Hwang - Journal of Hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Early detection and diagnosis of many cancers is very challenging. Late stage detection of a
cancer always leads to high mortality rates. It is imperative to develop novel and more …

Advances in 4D printing of liquid crystalline elastomers: materials, techniques, and applications

Z Guan, L Wang, J Bae - Materials Horizons, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are polymer networks exhibiting anisotropic liquid
crystallinity while maintaining elastomeric properties. Owing to diverse polymeric forms and …

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 …

3D printing of functional magnetic materials: From design to applications

C Zhang, X Li, L Jiang, D Tang, H Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The research of functional magnetic materials has become a hot topic in the past few years
due to their fast, long‐range, and precise response in diverse environments. Functional …

Light-triggered drug release from 3D-printed magnetic chitosan microswimmers

U Bozuyuk, O Yasa, IC Yasa, H Ceylan, S Kizilel… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Advances in design and fabrication of functional micro/nanomaterials have sparked growing
interest in creating new mobile microswimmers for various healthcare applications, including …

Micro‐/nanorobots at work in active drug delivery

M Luo, Y Feng, T Wang, J Guan - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
After the tremendous advances over the past two decades, micro‐/nanorobots can
effectively convert other forms of energy into propulsion and movement, as well as be …

Real-time 3D optoacoustic tracking of cell-sized magnetic microrobots circulating in the mouse brain vasculature

P Wrede, O Degtyaruk, SK Kalva, XL Deán-Ben… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Mobile microrobots hold remarkable potential to revolutionize health care by enabling
unprecedented active medical interventions and theranostics, such as active cargo delivery …

3D printed enzymatically biodegradable soft helical microswimmers

X Wang, XH Qin, C Hu, A Terzopoulou… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile micro‐and nanorobots are proposed for future biomedical applications, such as
diagnostics and targeted delivery. For their translation to clinical practice, biocompatibility …