Lab on a chip
Aug 22, 2023
Upstream sample preparation remains the bottleneck for point-of-need nucleic acid testing due to its complexity and time-consuming nature. Sample preparation involves extracting, purifying, and concentrating nucleic acids from various matrices. These...
Acta biomaterialia
Aug 10, 2023
Biohybrid magnetic microrobots (BMMs) have emerged as an exciting class of microrobots and have been considered as a promising platform in biomedicine. Many microorganisms and body's own cells show intriguing properties, such as morphological charact...
Journal of materials chemistry. B
Jul 5, 2023
Microrobots for targeted drug delivery in blood vessels have attracted increasing interest from researchers. In this work, hydrogel-based capsule microrobots are used to wrap drugs and deliver drugs in blood vessels. In order to prepare capsule micro...
Nature communications
Feb 24, 2023
Neuromorphic computing using nonvolatile memories is expected to tackle the memory wall and energy efficiency bottleneck in the von Neumann system and to mitigate the stagnation of Moore's law. However, an ideal artificial neuron possessing bio-inspi...
Nature communications
Dec 23, 2022
Miniature magnetic soft machines could significantly impact minimally invasive robotics and biomedical applications. However, most soft machines are limited to solid magnetic materials, whereas further progress also relies on fluidic constructs obtai...
Scientific reports
Dec 13, 2022
Programmable matter can change its shape, stiffness or other physical properties upon command. Previous work has shown contactless optically controlled matter or magnetic actuation, but the former is limited in strength and the latter in spatial reso...
Science advances
Nov 18, 2022
Microrobots that can be precisely guided to target lesions have been studied for in vivo medical applications. However, existing microrobots have challenges in vivo such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, actuation module, and intra- and postoper...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Sep 5, 2022
Miniature untethered robots attract growing interest as they have become more functional and applicable to disruptive biomedical applications recently. Particularly, the soft ones among them exhibit unique merits of compliance, versatility, and agili...
ACS nano
Aug 4, 2022
Microrobot swarms have promising prospects in biomedical applications ranging from targeted cargo delivery to minimally invasive surgery. However, such potential is constrained by the small output force and low efficiency of the current microrobot sw...
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 13, 2022
Magnetic composites and self-healing materials have been drawing much attention in their respective fields of application. Magnetic fillers enable changes in the material properties of objects, in the shapes and structures of objects, and ultimately ...