Bio-Hybrid Cell-Based Actuators for Microsystems

Carbon-Nanotube-Embedded Hydrogel Sheets for Engineering Cardiac Constructs and Bioactuators

(2013) Su Ryon Shin et al.   ACS Nano

Optimizing the structure and contractility of engineered skeletal muscle thin films

(2013) Y. Sun et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Development of a Sperm-Flagella Driven Micro-Bio-Robot

(2013) Veronika Magdanz et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fabrication and Characterization of Magnetic Microrobots for Three-Dimensional Cell Culture and Targeted Transportation

(2013) Sangwon Kim et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A bacterial salt sensor created by multiplying phenotypes of GroE-depleted Escherichia coli

(2013) Kei Fujiwara et al.   Analytical Methods

Effect of surface interactions and geometry on the motion of micro bio robots

(2013) Denise Wong et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Near and far-wall effects on the three-dimensional motion of bacteria-driven microbeads

(2013) Matthew R. Edwards et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Three-dimensional neuron–muscle constructs with neuromuscular junctions

(2013) Yuya Morimoto et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Assessment of navigation control strategy for magnetotactic bacteria in microchannel: toward targeting solid tumors

(2013) Ouajdi Felfoul et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Motility analysis of bacteria-based microrobot (bacteriobot) using chemical gradient microchamber

(2013) Daechul Park et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Non-linear modeling of active biohybrid materials

(2013) C. Paetsch et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NON-LINEAR MECHANICS

Independent control of multiple magnetic microrobots in three dimensions

(2013) Eric Diller et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Atmospheric-operable bioactuator powered by insect muscle packaged with medium

(2013) Yoshitake Akiyama et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Utilization and control of bioactuators across multiple length scales

(2013) Vincent Chan et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Engineered Antifouling Microtopographies: An Energetic Model That Predicts Cell Attachment

(2013) Joseph T. Decker et al.   LANGMUIR

Engineered Nanomembranes for Directing Cellular Organization Toward Flexible Biodevices

(2013) Toshinori Fujie et al.   NANO LETTERS

Small power: Autonomous nano- and micromotors propelled by self-generated gradients

(2013) Wei Wang et al.   Nano Today

Propulsion of liposomes using bacterial motors

(2013) Zhenhai Zhang et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Boron Nitride Nanotube-Mediated Stimulation of Cell Co-Culture on Micro-Engineered Hydrogels

(2013) Leonardo Ricotti et al.   PLoS One

Fabrication of flexible microelectrode arrays integrated with microfluidic channels for stable neural interfaces

(2013) Kunpeng Gao et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

Mixing of solutions by coordinated ciliary motion in Vorticella convallaria and patterning method for microfluidic applications

(2013) Moeto Nagai et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

Construction and evaluation of bacteria-driven liposome

(2013) Masaru Kojima et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

Voluntary Movement Controlled by the Surface EMG Signal for Tissue-Engineered Skeletal Muscle on a Gripping Tool

(2013) Ken-ichiro Kabumoto et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Engineered skeletal muscle tissue for soft robotics: fabrication strategies, current applications, and future challenges

(2013) Rebecca M. Duffy et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology

Targeted delivery of colloids by swimming bacteria

(2013) N. Koumakis et al.   Nature Communications

Acoustic tweezing cytometry for live-cell subcellular modulation of intracellular cytoskeleton contractility

(2013) Zhenzhen Fan et al.   Scientific Reports

Micro- and nano-motors for biomedical applications

(2013) Loai K. E. A. Abdelmohsen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Magnetic Helical Micromachines: Fabrication, Controlled Swimming, and Cargo Transport

(2012) Soichiro Tottori et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Topographically Modified Substrate-Embedded MEA for Directed Myotube Formation at Electrode Contact Sites

(2012) Christopher G. Langhammer et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Cardiomyocyte-driven gel network for bio mechano-informatic wet robotics

(2012) Takayuki Hoshino et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Bio-hybrid muscle cell-based actuators

(2012) Leonardo Ricotti et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Effect of body shape on the motile behavior of bacteria-powered swimming microrobots (BacteriaBots)

(2012) Ali Sahari et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Chemotactic steering of bacteria propelled microbeads

(2012) Dongwook Kim et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Development of bacteria-based microrobot using biocompatible poly(ethylene glycol)

(2012) Sunghoon Cho et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Bacterial microsystems and microrobots

(2012) Sylvain Martel   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Construction and operation of a microrobot based on magnetotactic bacteria in a microfluidic chip

(2012) Qiufeng Ma et al.   Biomicrofluidics

Motion control of magnetized Tetrahymena pyriformis cells by a magnetic field with Model Predictive Control

(2012) Yan Ou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Modeling of cardiac muscle thin films: Pre-stretch, passive and active behavior

(2012) Jongmin Shim et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Evaluation systems of generated forces of skeletal muscle cell-based bio-actuators

(2012) Kazunori Shimizu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

Formation and optogenetic control of engineered 3D skeletal muscle bioactuators

(2012) Mahmut Selman Sakar et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Rapid casting of patterned vascular networks for perfusable engineered three-dimensional tissues

(2012) Jordan S. Miller et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Isolation and Maintenance-Free Culture of Contractile Myotubes from Manduca sexta Embryos

(2012) Amanda L. Baryshyan et al.   PLoS One

Functional Neuromuscular Junctions Formed by Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Motor Neurons

(2012) Joy A. Umbach et al.   PLoS One

Room Temperature Operable Autonomously Moving Bio-Microrobot Powered by Insect Dorsal Vessel Tissue

(2012) Yoshitake Akiyama et al.   PLoS One

Engineering of In Vitro 3D Capillary Beds by Self-Directed Angiogenic Sprouting

(2012) Juliana M. Chan et al.   PLoS One

In vitro microvessels for the study of angiogenesis and thrombosis

(2012) Y. Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Remotely addressable magnetic composite micropumps

(2012) Eric Diller et al.   RSC Advances

Development of Miniaturized Walking Biological Machines

(2012) Vincent Chan et al.   Scientific Reports

Micro-algal biosensors

(2011) Roberta Brayner et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Use of an AC electric field in galvanotactic on/off switching of the motion of a microstructure blotted bySerratia marcescens

(2011) Trung-Hieu Tran et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Optically controlled contraction of photosensitive skeletal muscle cells

(2011) Toshifumi Asano et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Skeletal myotube integration with planar microelectrode arrays in vitro for spatially selective recording and stimulation: A comparison of neuronal and myotube extracellular action potentials

(2011) Christopher G. Langhammer et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS

Modeling, control and experimental characterization of microbiorobots

(2011) Mahmut Selman Sakar et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Modeling of stochastic motion of bacteria propelled spherical microbeads

(2011) Veaceslav Arabagi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Electrokinetic and optical control of bacterial microrobots

(2011) Edward B Steager et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Multi-material bio-fabrication of hydrogel cantilevers and actuators with stereolithography

(2011) Vincent Chan et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Computational and experimental study of chemotaxis of an ensemble of bacteria attached to a microbead

(2011) Mahama A. Traoré et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Fluid actuation for a bio-micropump powered by previously frozen cardiomyocytes directly seeded on a diagonally stretched thin membrane

(2011) Yo Tanaka et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

Enabling Cargo-Carrying Bacteria via Surface Attachment and Triggered Release

(2011) Rohan Fernandes et al.   Small

Local Tissue Geometry Determines Contractile Force Generation of Engineered Muscle Networks

(2011) Weining Bian et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Microrobots for Minimally Invasive Medicine

(2010) Bradley J. Nelson et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Artificial magnetotactic motion control of Tetrahymena pyriformis using ferromagnetic nanoparticles: A tool for fabrication of microbiorobots

(2010) Dal Hyung Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Biohybrid thin films for measuring contractility in engineered cardiovascular muscle

(2010) Patrick W. Alford et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Designing of a Si-MEMS device with an integrated skeletal muscle cell-based bio-actuator

(2010) Hideaki Fujita et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Monitoring of E. coli immobilization on modified gold electrode: A new bacteria-based glucose sensor

(2010) N. Borghol et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING

Cardiomyogenesis in the Adult Human Heart

(2010) Jan Kajstura et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Electrical stimulation of cultured lepidopteran dorsal vessel tissue: an experiment for development of bioactuators

(2010) Yoshitake Akiyama et al.   IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-ANIMAL

Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewaters: A review

(2010) Fenglian Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Chemical control of Vorticella bioactuator using microfluidics

(2010) Moeto Nagai et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Motility enhancement of bacteria actuated microstructures using selective bacteria adhesion

(2010) Sung Jun Park et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Spatiotemporally controlled contraction of micropatterned skeletal muscle cells on a hydrogel sheet

(2010) Kuniaki Nagamine et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Bacteria Pattern Spontaneously on Periodic Nanostructure Arrays

(2010) Allon I. Hochbaum et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optogenetics

(2010) Karl Deisseroth   NATURE METHODS

Optogenetic control of heart muscle in vitro and in vivo

(2010) Tobias Bruegmann et al.   NATURE METHODS

Measurement of Contractile Stress Generated by Cultured Rat Muscle on Silicon Cantilevers for Toxin Detection and Muscle Performance Enhancement

(2010) Kerry Wilson et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial ratchet motors

(2010) R. Di Leonardo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optogenetic Control of Cardiac Function

(2010) A. B. Arrenberg et al.   SCIENCE

Functional Evaluation of Artificial Skeletal Muscle Tissue Constructs Fabricated by a Magnetic Force-Based Tissue Engineering Technique

(2010) Yasunori Yamamoto et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Galvanotactic and phototactic control of Tetrahymena pyriformis as a microfluidic workhorse

(2009) Dal Hyung Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Automated drug screening with contractile muscle tissue engineered from dystrophic myoblasts

(2009) Herman Vandenburgh et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Flagellated Magnetotactic Bacteria as Controlled MRI-trackable Propulsion and Steering Systems for Medical Nanorobots Operating in the Human Microvasculature

(2009) Sylvain Martel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Control of myotube contraction using electrical pulse stimulation for bio-actuator

(2009) Ken-ichi Yamasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS

Preparation of artificial skeletal muscle tissues by a magnetic force-based tissue engineering technique

(2009) Yasunori Yamamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

Micropatterning of single myotubes on a thermoresponsive culture surface using elastic stencil membranes for single-cell analysis

(2009) Kazunori Shimizu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

Live-cell microscopy - tips and tools

(2009) M. M. Frigault et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Voyage of the microrobots

(2009) Metin Sitti   NATURE

Mesoscopic hydrogel molding to control the 3D geometry of bioartificial muscle tissues

(2009) Weining Bian et al.   Nature Protocols

Self-Starting Micromotors in a Bacterial Bath

(2009) Luca Angelani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Swimming bacteria power microscopic gears

(2009) A. Sokolov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of quantity and configuration of attached bacteria on bacterial propulsion of microbeads

(2008) Bahareh Behkam et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Microfeature guided skeletal muscle tissue engineering for highly organized 3-dimensional free-standing constructs

(2008) Mai T. Lam et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Long-term and room temperature operable bioactuator powered by insect dorsal vessel tissue

(2008) Yoshitake Akiyama et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

The thermal impulse response of Escherichia coli

(2008) E. Paster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Culture of insect cells contracting spontaneously; research moving toward an environmentally robust hybrid robotic system

(2007) Yoshitake Akiyama et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Demonstration of a bio-microactuator powered by vascular smooth muscle cells coupled to polymer micropillars

(2007) Yo Tanaka et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Microfluidic Pump Powered by Self-Organizing Bacteria

(2007) Min Jun Kim et al.   Small