Untethered small-scale machines for microrobotic manipulation: From individual and multiple to collective machines

Q Wang, J Zhang, J Yu, J Lang, Z Lyu, Y Chen… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Untethered small-scale machines (USSMs) that can actively adjust their motion,
deformation, and collective states in response to external stimuli have gained enormous …

Ferrofluids and bio-ferrofluids: Looking back and step** forward

V Socoliuc, MV Avdeev, V Kuncser, R Turcu… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferrofluids investigated along for about five decades are ultrastable colloidal suspensions of
magnetic nanoparticles, which manifest simultaneously fluid and magnetic properties. Their …

Scale-reconfigurable miniature ferrofluidic robots for negotiating sharply variable spaces

X Fan, Y Jiang, M Li, Y Zhang, C Tian, L Mao, H **e… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Magnetic miniature soft robots have shown great potential for facilitating biomedical
applications by minimizing invasiveness and possible physical damage. However …

Reconfigurable magnetic slime robot: deformation, adaptability, and multifunction

M Sun, C Tian, L Mao, X Meng, X Shen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic miniature soft‐bodied robots allow non‐invasive access to restricted spaces and
provide ideal solutions for minimally invasive surgery, micromanipulation, and targeted drug …

Permanent fluidic magnets for liquid bioelectronics

X Zhao, Y Zhou, Y Song, J Xu, J Li, T Tat, G Chen… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Brownian motion allows microscopically dispersed nanoparticles to be stable in ferrofluids,
as well as causes magnetization relaxation and prohibits permanent magnetism. Here we …

Reconfigurable magnetic liquid metal robot for high-performance droplet manipulation

Y Zhang, S Jiang, Y Hu, T Wu, Y Zhang, H Li, A Li… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Droplet manipulation is crucial for diverse applications ranging from bioassay to medical
diagnosis. Current magnetic-field-driven manipulation strategies are mainly based on fixed …

Reconfigurable multifunctional ferrofluid droplet robots

X Fan, X Dong, AC Karacakol… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Magnetically actuated miniature soft robots are capable of programmable deformations for
multimodal locomotion and manipulation functions, potentially enabling direct access to …

Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines

M Sun, B Hao, S Yang, X Wang, C Majidi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Miniature magnetic soft machines could significantly impact minimally invasive robotics and
biomedical applications. However, most soft machines are limited to solid magnetic …

Magnetoactive liquid-solid phase transitional matter

Q Wang, C Pan, Y Zhang, L Peng, Z Chen, C Majidi… - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Magnetically actuated miniature machines can perform multimodal locomotion and
programmable deformations. However, they are either solid magnetic elastomers with …

Ferrobotic swarms enable accessible and adaptable automated viral testing

H Lin, W Yu, K A. Sabet, M Bogumil, Y Zhao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Expanding our global testing capacity is critical to preventing and containing pandemics,,,,,,,–
. Accordingly, accessible and adaptable automated platforms that in decentralized settings …