Chemically Propelled Nano and Micromotors in the Body: Quo Vadis?

Recent Advances in Nano‐ and Micromotors

(2020) Marina Fernández‐Medina et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Layer-by-Layer Biomaterials for Drug Delivery

(2020) Dahlia Alkekhia et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Active matter therapeutics

(2020) Arijit Ghosh et al.   Nano Today

Self‐Propelled PLGA Micromotor with Chemotactic Response to Inflammation

(2020) Jiamian Wang et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Multicompartment Tubular Micromotors Toward Enhanced Localized Active Delivery

(2020) Berta Esteban‐Fernández de Ávila et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biomimicry of Cellular Motility and Communication Based on Synthetic Soft-Architectures

(2020) Lei Wang et al.   Small

Multifunctional surface microrollers for targeted cargo delivery in physiological blood flow

(2020) Yunus Alapan et al.   Science Robotics

Mechanically Induced Bacterial Death Imaged in Real Time: A Simultaneous Nanoindentation and Fluorescence Microscopy Study

(2020) Adrián del Valle et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Fantastic Voyage of Nanomotors into the Cell

(2020) Pooyath Lekshmy Venugopalan et al.   ACS Nano

Biomedical Micro‐/Nanomotors: From Overcoming Biological Barriers to In Vivo Imaging

(2020) Changyong Gao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Enzyme Conformation Influences the Performance of Lipase‐powered Nanomotors

(2020) Lei Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Zinc Microrocket Pills: Fabrication and Characterization toward Active Oral Delivery

(2020) Rodolfo Mundaca‐Uribe et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

LipoBots: Using Liposomal Vesicles as Protective Shell of Urease‐Based Nanomotors

(2020) Ana C. Hortelão et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanomotors Sense Local Physicochemical Heterogeneities in Tumor Microenvironments

(2020) Debayan Dasgupta et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electronically integrated, mass-manufactured, microscopic robots

(2020) Marc Z. Miskin et al.   NATURE

Medical Micro/Nanorobots in Precision Medicine

(2020) Fernando Soto et al.   Advanced Science

Scalable and integrated flow synthesis of triple-responsive nano-motors via microfluidic Pickering emulsification

(2020) Byung Kwon Kaang et al.   Applied Materials Today

A Macrophage–Magnesium Hybrid Biomotor: Fabrication and Characterization

(2019) Fangyu Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Macroscale Chemotaxis from a Swarm of Bacteria-Mimicking Nanoswimmers

(2019) Yuxing Ji et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Intrinsic enzymatic properties modulate the self-propulsion of micromotors

(2019) Xavier Arqué et al.   Nature Communications

Microswimmers with Heat Delivery Capacity for 3D Cell Spheroid Penetration

(2019) Miguel A. Ramos-Docampo et al.   ACS Nano

Motility of Enzyme-Powered Vesicles

(2019) Subhadip Ghosh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self‐Propelled Micro/Nanomotors for On‐Demand Biomedical Cargo Transportation

(2019) Dandan Xu et al.   Small

Photocatalytic Micromotors Activated by UV to Visible Light for Environmental Remediation, Micropumps, Reversible Assembly, Transportation, and Biomimicry

(2019) Lei Kong et al.   Small

Visible-Light-Driven Janus Microvehicles in Biological Media

(2019) Marta Pacheco et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Force Generation by Myosin Motors: A Structural Perspective

(2019) Julien Robert-Paganin et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Positive and negative chemotaxis of enzyme-coated liposome motors

(2019) Ambika Somasundar et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Dynamic motions of molecular motors in the actin cytoskeleton

(2019) Wonyeong Jung et al.   Cytoskeleton

Helical Nanomachines as Mobile Viscometers

(2018) Arijit Ghosh et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Artificial Micro/Nanomachines for Bioapplications: Biochemical Delivery and Diagnostic Sensing

(2018) Kwanoh Kim et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Advances in Biomaterials for Drug Delivery

(2018) Owen S. Fenton et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Two Forces Are Better than One: Combining Chemical and Acoustic Propulsion for Enhanced Micromotor Functionality

(2018) Liqiang Ren et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Enhanced Diffusion and Chemotaxis at the Nanoscale

(2018) Jaime Agudo-Canalejo et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Powering Motion with Enzymes

(2018) Xi Zhao et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Micromotors for drug delivery in vivo: The road ahead

(2018) Sarvesh Kumar Srivastava et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

A Theory of Enzyme Chemotaxis: From Experiments to Modeling

(2018) Farzad Mohajerani et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Magnetic Active Matter Based on Helical Propulsion

(2018) Pranay Mandal et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Targeting 3D Bladder Cancer Spheroids with Urease-Powered Nanomotors

(2018) Ana C. Hortelão et al.   ACS Nano

A swarm of slippery micropropellers penetrates the vitreous body of the eye

(2018) Zhiguang Wu et al.   Science Advances

Chemically Propelled Molecules and Machines

(2017) Krishna Kanti Dey et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Substrate-driven chemotactic assembly in an enzyme cascade

(2017) Xi Zhao et al.   Nature Chemistry

Micromotor-enabled active drug delivery for in vivo treatment of stomach infection

(2017) Berta Esteban-Fernández de Ávila et al.   Nature Communications

Chemotactic synthetic vesicles: Design and applications in blood-brain barrier crossing

(2017) Adrian Joseph et al.   Science Advances

Forces, stresses and the (thermo?) dynamics of active matter

(2016) Sho C. Takatori et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems: a commercial and regulatory outlook as the field matures

(2016) Héloïse Ragelle et al.   Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery

Magneto-aerotactic bacteria deliver drug-containing nanoliposomes to tumour hypoxic regions

(2016) Ouajdi Felfoul et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

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

Medibots: Dual-Action Biogenic Microdaggers for Single-Cell Surgery and Drug Release

(2015) Sarvesh Kumar Srivastava et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Degradable Magnetic Composites for Minimally Invasive Interventions: Device Fabrication, Targeted Drug Delivery, and Cytotoxicity Tests

(2015) Christian Peters et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A tale of two forces: simultaneous chemical and acoustic propulsion of bimetallic micromotors

(2015) Wei Wang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A Force to Be Reckoned With: A Review of Synthetic Microswimmers Powered by Ultrasound

(2015) K. Jagajjanani Rao et al.   Small

Artificial rheotaxis

(2015) J. Palacci et al.   Science Advances

Autonomous Motion and Temperature-Controlled Drug Delivery of Mg/Pt-Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Janus Micromotors Driven by Simulated Body Fluid and Blood Plasma

(2014) Fangzhi Mou et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Acoustic Propulsion of Nanorod Motors Inside Living Cells

(2014) Wei Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Biologically Effective Dose in Inhalation Nanotoxicology

(2012) Ken Donaldson et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Acoustic Droplet Vaporization and Propulsion of Perfluorocarbon-Loaded Microbullets for Targeted Tissue Penetration and Deformation

(2012) Daniel Kagan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Intelligent, self-powered, drug delivery systems

(2012) Debabrata Patra et al.   Nanoscale

Multi-Fuel Driven Janus Micromotors

(2012) Wei Gao et al.   Small

Nanoparticles that communicate in vivo to amplify tumour targeting

(2011) Geoffrey von Maltzahn et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Hybrid Nanomotor: A Catalytically/Magnetically Powered Adaptive Nanowire Swimmer

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   Small

Microrobots for Minimally Invasive Medicine

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

Chemical power for microscopic robots in capillaries

(2009) Tad Hogg et al.   Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine

The Impact of Molecular Weight and PEG Chain Length on the Systemic Pharmacokinetics of PEGylated Polyl-Lysine Dendrimers

(2008) Lisa M. Kaminskas et al.   MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS