Light‐Induced Cold Marangoni Flow for Microswarm Actuation: From Intelligent Behaviors to Collective Drug Delivery

Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions

(2022) Gaurav Gardi et al.   Nature Communications

Ion-exchange enabled synthetic swarm

(2021) Changjin Wu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Long-range optofluidic control with plasmon heating

(2021) B. Ciraulo et al.   Nature Communications

Swarming behavior and in vivo monitoring of enzymatic nanomotors within the bladder

(2021) Ana C. Hortelao et al.   Science Robotics

The rise of intelligent matter

(2021) C. Kaspar et al.   NATURE

Light Technology for Efficient and Effective Photodynamic Therapy: A Critical Review

(2021) José Francisco Algorri et al.   Cancers

From collections of independent, mindless robots to flexible, mobile, and directional superstructures

(2021) J. F. Boudet et al.   Science Robotics

An Overview of Micronanoswarms for Biomedical Applications

(2021) Hui Chen et al.   ACS Nano

Bio‐Micromotor Tweezers for Noninvasive Bio‐Cargo Delivery and Precise Therapy

(2021) Ting Pan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

In Situ Single-Cell Surgery and Intracellular Organelle Manipulation Via Thermoplasmonics Combined Optical Trapping

(2021) Xiaoting Zhao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Hierarchical Microswarms with Leader–Follower‐Like Structures: Electrohydrodynamic Self‐Organization and Multimode Collective Photoresponses

(2020) Xiong Liang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Light-Driven Hovering of a Magnetic Microswarm in Fluid

(2020) Fengtong Ji et al.   ACS Nano

Reconfigurable Assembly of Active Liquid Metal Colloidal Cluster

(2020) Zesheng Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Opto-thermoelectric microswimmers

(2020) Xiaolei Peng et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Active generation and magnetic actuation of microrobotic swarms in bio-fluids

(2019) Jiangfan Yu et al.   Nature Communications

Surfactant-induced Marangoni transport of lipids and therapeutics within the lung

(2018) Amy Z. Stetten et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

Neutrophil-inspired propulsion in a combined acoustic and magnetic field

(2017) Daniel Ahmed et al.   Nature Communications

Enabling Marangoni flow at air-liquid interfaces through deposition of aerosolized lipid dispersions

(2016) Amy Z. Stetten et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Reconfiguring active particles by electrostatic imbalance

(2016) Jing Yan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Thermo-Osmotic Flow in Thin Films

(2016) Andreas P. Bregulla et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Light-induced self-assembly of active rectification devices

(2016) J. Stenhammar et al.   Science Advances

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

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

Reversible Swarming and Separation of Self-Propelled Chemically Powered Nanomotors under Acoustic Fields

(2015) Tailin Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-Directed Particle Patterning by Evaporative Optical Marangoni Assembly

(2015) Subramanyan Namboodiri Varanakkottu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Contactless automated manipulation of mesoscale objects using opto-fluidic actuation and visual servoing

(2014) Emir Vela et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm

(2014) M. Rubenstein et al.   SCIENCE

Understanding and controlling plasmon-induced convection

(2014) Brian J. Roxworthy et al.   Nature Communications

Interfacial tension between oil and water measured with a modified contour method

(2013) F. Peters et al.   COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS

Surface acoustic wave microfluidics

(2013) Xiaoyun Ding et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

(2013) Antoine Bricard et al.   NATURE

Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers

(2013) J. Palacci et al.   SCIENCE

Auto-production of biosurfactants reverses the coffee ring effect in a bacterial system

(2013) Wouter Sempels et al.   Nature Communications

Autonomous Motion of Metallic Microrods Propelled by Ultrasound

(2012) Wei Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Assembling of three-dimensional crystals by optical depletion force induced by a single focused laser beam

(2012) Hai-Dong Deng et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Physical Properties of Collective Motion in Suspensions of Bacteria

(2012) Andrey Sokolov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Protein-binding assays in biological liquids using microscale thermophoresis

(2010) Christoph J. Wienken et al.   Nature Communications