High-Motility Visible Light-Driven Ag/AgCl Janus Micromotors

Fuel-Free Nanocap-Like Motors Actuated Under Visible Light

(2018) Xu Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photochemically Powered AgCl Janus Micromotors as a Model System to Understand Ionic Self-Diffusiophoresis

(2018) Chao Zhou et al.   LANGMUIR

Highly efficient degradation of thidiazuron with Ag/AgCl- activated carbon composites under LED light irradiation

(2017) Yisi Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Metal–Organic Frameworks as Micromotors with Tunable Engines and Brakes

(2017) Jinxing Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Visible-Light-Driven BiOI-Based Janus Micromotor in Pure Water

(2017) Renfeng Dong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Efficient Freestyle Magnetic Nanoswimmer

(2017) Tianlong Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

ZnO-based microrockets with light-enhanced propulsion

(2017) Renfeng Dong et al.   Nanoscale

Visible-light driven Si–Au micromotors in water and organic solvents

(2017) Dekai Zhou et al.   Nanoscale

Visible-light controlled catalytic Cu2O–Au micromotors

(2017) Dekai Zhou et al.   Nanoscale

Synthesis of AG@AgCl Core–Shell Structure Nanowires and Its Photocatalytic Oxidation of Arsenic (III) Under Visible Light

(2017) Yanyan Qin et al.   Nanoscale Research Letters

Ionic screening and dissociation are crucial for understanding chemical self-propulsion in polar solvents

(2017) Aidan T. Brown et al.   Soft Matter

Orthogonal navigation of multiple visible-light-driven artificial microswimmers

(2017) Jing Zheng et al.   Nature Communications

Synthesis of AG@AgCl Core–Shell Structure Nanowires and Its Photocatalytic Oxidation of Arsenic (III) Under Visible Light

(2017) Yanyan Qin et al.   Nanoscale Research Letters

Designing Micro- and Nanoswimmers for Specific Applications

(2016) Jaideep Katuri et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Reversed Janus Micro/Nanomotors with Internal Chemical Engine

(2016) Xing Ma et al.   ACS Nano

Progress toward Light-Harvesting Self-Electrophoretic Motors: Highly Efficient Bimetallic Nanomotors and Micropumps in Halogen Media

(2016) Flory Wong et al.   ACS Nano

Light-Steered Isotropic Semiconductor Micromotors

(2016) Chuanrui Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hybrid Magnetoelectric Nanowires for Nanorobotic Applications: Fabrication, Magnetoelectric Coupling, and Magnetically Assisted In Vitro Targeted Drug Delivery

(2016) Xiang-Zhong Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photo-catalytic activity of Plasmonic Ag@AgCl nanoparticles (synthesized via a green route) for the effective degradation of Victoria Blue B from aqueous phase

(2016) Th. Babita Devi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Bubble-Free Propulsion of Ultrasmall Tubular Nanojets Powered by Biocatalytic Reactions

(2016) Xing Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Near Infrared Light-Powered Janus Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Motors

(2016) Mingjun Xuan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Programmable artificial phototactic microswimmer

(2016) Baohu Dai et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Confined Catalytic Janus Swimmers in a Crowded Channel: Geometry-Driven Rectification Transients and Directional Locking

(2016) Hailing Yu et al.   Small

Origins of concentration gradients for diffusiophoresis

(2016) Darrell Velegol et al.   Soft Matter

Dynamics of Novel Photoactive AgCl Microstars and Their Environmental Applications

(2016) Juliane Simmchen et al.   ChemNanoMat

From One to Many: Dynamic Assembly and Collective Behavior of Self-Propelled Colloidal Motors

(2015) Wei Wang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Artificial Micromotors in the Mouse’s Stomach: A Step toward in Vivo Use of Synthetic Motors

(2015) Wei Gao et al.   ACS Nano

Highly Efficient Light-Driven TiO2–Au Janus Micromotors

(2015) Renfeng Dong et al.   ACS Nano

Magnetic Helical Microswimmers Functionalized with Lipoplexes for Targeted Gene Delivery

(2015) Famin Qiu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Near-Infrared-Activated Nanocalorifiers in Microcapsules: Vapor Bubble Generation for In Vivo Enhanced Cancer Therapy

(2015) Jingxin Shao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Fabrication of Micro/Nanoscale Motors

(2015) Hong Wang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Catalytic Mesoporous Janus Nanomotors for Active Cargo Delivery

(2015) Xing Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Undulatory Locomotion of Magnetic Multilink Nanoswimmers

(2015) Bumjin Jang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Direct measurement of thermophoretic forces

(2015) Laurent Helden et al.   Soft Matter

Micromotors with asymmetric shape that efficiently convert light into work by thermocapillary effects

(2015) Claudio Maggi et al.   Nature Communications

Durable Ag/AgCl nanowires assembled in a sponge for continuous water purification under sunlight

(2015) Jin Ge et al.   Materials Horizons

In Situ Ion Exchange Synthesis of Strongly Coupled Ag@AgCl/g-C3N4 Porous Nanosheets as Plasmonic Photocatalyst for Highly Efficient Visible-Light Photocatalysis

(2014) Shouwei Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Near-Infrared Light-Triggered “On/Off” Motion of Polymer Multilayer Rockets

(2014) Zhiguang Wu et al.   ACS Nano

The Environmental Impact of Micro/Nanomachines: A Review

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   ACS Nano

Simulation of the active Brownian motion of a microswimmer

(2014) Giorgio Volpe et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Nano/Micromotors in (Bio)chemical Science Applications

(2014) Maria Guix et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Catalytic Iridium-Based Janus Micromotors Powered by Ultralow Levels of Chemical Fuels

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Beyond Platinum: Bubble-Propelled Micromotors Based on Ag and MnO2 Catalysts

(2014) Hong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthetic micro/nanomotors in drug delivery

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   Nanoscale

Melanin Photosensitization and the Effect of Visible Light on Epithelial Cells

(2014) Orlando Chiarelli-Neto et al.   PLoS One

Functionalized Ultrasound-Propelled Magnetically Guided Nanomotors: Toward Practical Biomedical Applications

(2013) Victor Garcia-Gradilla et al.   ACS Nano

Efficient Ag@AgCl Cubic Cage Photocatalysts Profit from Ultrafast Plasmon-Induced Electron Transfer Processes

(2013) Yuxin Tang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Self-Propelled Polymer-Based Multilayer Nanorockets for Transportation and Drug Release

(2013) Zhiguang Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Chemotactic Behavior of Catalytic Motors in Microfluidic Channels

(2013) Larysa Baraban et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Transition between Collective Behaviors of Micromotors in Response to Different Stimuli

(2013) Wentao Duan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chiral Colloidal Molecules And Observation of The Propeller Effect

(2013) Debora Schamel et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Self-Propelled Janus Particles in a Ratchet: Numerical Simulations

(2013) Pulak K. Ghosh et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Dispersion of Self-Propelled Rods Undergoing Fluctuation-Driven Flips

(2013) Daisuke Takagi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A Quantitative Comparison of Single-Dye Tracking Analysis Tools Using Monte Carlo Simulations

(2013) Laura Weimann et al.   PLoS One

Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers

(2013) J. Palacci et al.   SCIENCE

A self-propelled thermophoretic microgear

(2013) Mingcheng Yang et al.   Soft Matter

Catalytic Janus Motors on Microfluidic Chip: Deterministic Motion for Targeted Cargo Delivery

(2012) Larysa Baraban et al.   ACS Nano

Autonomous Motion of Metallic Microrods Propelled by Ultrasound

(2012) Wei Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Fuel-Free Locomotion of Janus Motors: Magnetically Induced Thermophoresis

(2012) Larysa Baraban et al.   ACS Nano

A Review of Surface Plasmon Resonance-Enhanced Photocatalysis

(2012) Wenbo Hou et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

(2012) Soichiro Tottori et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Janus Au-TiO2Photocatalysts with Strong Localization of Plasmonic Near-Fields for Efficient Visible-Light Hydrogen Generation

(2012) Zhi Wei Seh et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fantastic Voyage: Designing Self-Powered Nanorobots

(2012) Samudra Sengupta et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Importance of Particle Tracking and Calculating the Mean-Squared Displacement in Distinguishing Nanopropulsion from Other Processes

(2012) Gary Dunderdale et al.   LANGMUIR

Control over Janus micromotors by the strength of a magnetic field

(2012) Larysa Baraban et al.   Nanoscale

Athermal Phase Separation of Self-Propelled Particles with No Alignment

(2012) Yaouen Fily et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Graphene Oxide Enwrapped Ag/AgX (X = Br, Cl) Nanocomposite as a Highly Efficient Visible-Light Plasmonic Photocatalyst

(2011) Mingshan Zhu et al.   ACS Nano

Graphene Sheets Grafted Ag@AgCl Hybrid with Enhanced Plasmonic Photocatalytic Activity under Visible Light

(2011) Hui Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Autonomous Nanomotor Based on Copper–Platinum Segmented Nanobattery

(2011) Ran Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Efficient Catalytic Microengines: Template Electrosynthesis of Polyaniline/Platinum Microtubes

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Plasmon Resonant Enhancement of Photocatalytic Water Splitting Under Visible Illumination

(2011) Zuwei Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Plasmonic-metal nanostructures for efficient conversion of solar to chemical energy

(2011) Suljo Linic et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Transport of cargo by catalytic Janus micro-motors

(2011) L. Baraban et al.   Soft Matter

Emergent, Collective Oscillations of Self-Mobile Particles and Patterned Surfaces under Redox Conditions

(2010) Michael E. Ibele et al.   ACS Nano

Light-Driven Titanium-Dioxide-Based Reversible Microfireworks and Micromotor/Micropump Systems

(2010) Yiying Hong et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Facile Synthesis of Sunlight-Driven AgCl:Ag Plasmonic Nanophotocatalyst

(2010) Changhua An et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Simplified Cost-Effective Preparation of High-Performance Ag-Pt Nanowire Motors

(2010) Sirilak Sattayasamitsathit et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Active Motion of a Janus Particle by Self-Thermophoresis in a Defocused Laser Beam

(2010) Hong-Ren Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Can Man-Made Nanomachines Compete with Nature Biomotors?

(2009) Joseph Wang   ACS Nano

Schooling Behavior of Light-Powered Autonomous Micromotors in Water

(2009) Michael Ibele et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

In situ oxidation synthesis of Ag/AgCl core–shell nanowires and their photocatalytic properties

(2009) Yingpu Bi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Synthesis of Highly Efficient Ag@AgCl Plasmonic Photocatalysts with Various Structures

(2009) Peng Wang et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers

(2009) Ambarish Ghosh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Catalytic Microtubular Jet Engines Self-Propelled by Accumulated Gas Bubbles

(2009) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   Small

Ultrafast Catalytic Alloy Nanomotors

(2008) U. Korcan Demirok et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ag@AgCl: A Highly Efficient and Stable Photocatalyst Active under Visible Light

(2008) Peng Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Plasmonic Photocatalyst Consisting of Silver Nanoparticles Embedded in Titanium Dioxide

(2008) Koichi Awazu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Robust single-particle tracking in live-cell time-lapse sequences

(2008) Khuloud Jaqaman et al.   NATURE METHODS