Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
May 6, 2020
A magnetic urchin-like microswimmer based on sunflower pollen grain (SPG) that can pierce the cancer cell membrane and actively deliver therapeutic drugs is reported. These drug loaded microperforators are fabricated on a large scale by sequentially ...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Nov 13, 2019
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, despite the large efforts to improve the understanding of cancer biology and development of treatments. The attempts to improve cancer treatment are limited by the complexity of the local milieu...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Sep 3, 2019
Exosomes are endosome-derived vesicles enriched in body fluids such as urine, blood, and saliva. So far, they have been recognized as potential biomarkers for cancer diagnostics. However, the present single-variate analysis of exosomes has greatly li...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Jul 17, 2019
Mimicking biological locomotion strategies offers important possibilities and motivations for robot design and control methods. Among bioinspired microrobots, flexible microrobots exhibit remarkable efficiency and agility. These microrobots tradition...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Jul 15, 2019
Untethered small-scale robots have great potential for biomedical applications. However, critical barriers to effective translation of these miniaturized machines into clinical practice exist. High resolution tracking and imaging in vivo is one of th...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Apr 10, 2019
Structure-property maps play a key role in accelerated materials discovery. The current norm for developing these maps includes computationally expensive physics-based simulations. Here, the capabilities of deep learning agents are explored such as c...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Mar 25, 2019
Many living organisms undergo conspicuous or abrupt changes in body structure, which is often accompanied by a behavioral change. Inspired by the natural metamorphosis, robotic systems can be designed as reconfigurable to be multifunctional. Here, a ...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Mar 4, 2019
Biocompatibility and high responsiveness to magnetic fields are fundamental requisites to translate magnetic small-scale robots into clinical applications. The magnetic element iron exhibits the highest saturation magnetization and magnetic susceptib...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Nov 14, 2018
Neuromorphic systems aim to implement large-scale artificial neural network on hardware to ultimately realize human-level intelligence. The recent development of nonsilicon nanodevices has opened the huge potential of full memristive neural networks ...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
May 8, 2018
The precise delivery of biofunctionalized matters is of great interest from the fundamental and applied viewpoints. In spite of significant progress achieved during the last decade, a parallel and automated isolation and manipulation of rare analyte,...