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

Chemistry in Motion: Tiny Synthetic Motors

(2014) Peter H. Colberg et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Kilohertz Rotation of Nanorods Propelled by Ultrasound, Traced by Microvortex Advection of Nanoparticles

(2014) Andrew L. Balk et al.   ACS Nano

Self-Assembly of Nanorod Motors into Geometrically Regular Multimers and Their Propulsion by Ultrasound

(2014) Suzanne Ahmed et al.   ACS Nano

Chemotactic Separation of Enzymes

(2014) Krishna Kanti Dey et al.   ACS Nano

DNA Polymerase as a Molecular Motor and Pump

(2014) Samudra Sengupta et al.   ACS Nano

Acoustic Propulsion of Nanorod Motors Inside Living Cells

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

Biomimetic Artificial Inorganic Enzyme-Free Self-Propelled Microfish Robot for Selective Detection of Pb2+in Water

(2014) James Guo Sheng Moo et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Particle Deposition on Microporous Membranes Can Be Enhanced or Reduced by Salt Gradients

(2014) Abhishek Kar et al.   LANGMUIR

Geometric asymmetry driven Janus micromotors

(2014) Guanjia Zhao et al.   Nanoscale

Self-powered enzyme micropumps

(2014) Samudra Sengupta et al.   Nature Chemistry

Asymmetric steady streaming as a mechanism for acoustic propulsion of rigid bodies

(2014) François Nadal et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

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

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

Bone-Crack Detection, Targeting, and Repair Using Ion Gradients

(2013) Vinita Yadav et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Artificial micro-cinderella based on self-propelled micromagnets for the active separation of paramagnetic particles

(2013) Guanjia Zhao et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Understanding the Efficiency of Autonomous Nano- and Microscale Motors

(2013) Wei Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Transition between Collective Behaviors of Micromotors in Response to Different Stimuli

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

Steering Acoustically Propelled Nanowire Motors toward Cells in a Biologically Compatible Environment Using Magnetic Fields

(2013) Suzanne Ahmed et al.   LANGMUIR

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

(2013) Wei Wang et al.   Nano Today

Catalytically powered dynamic assembly of rod-shaped nanomotors and passive tracer particles

(2013) W. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrodynamics of soft active matter

(2013) M. C. Marchetti et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers

(2013) J. Palacci et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2012) Larysa Baraban et al.   ACS Nano

Superhydrophobic Alkanethiol-Coated Microsubmarines for Effective Removal of Oil

(2012) Maria Guix et al.   ACS Nano

Autonomous Motion of Metallic Microrods Propelled by Ultrasound

(2012) Wei Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Artificial Enzyme-Powered Microfish for Water-Quality Testing

(2012) Jahir Orozco et al.   ACS Nano

Fuel-Free Locomotion of Janus Motors: Magnetically Induced Thermophoresis

(2012) Larysa Baraban et al.   ACS Nano

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

(2012) Soichiro Tottori et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

Collective behaviour of self-propelled catalytic micromotors

(2012) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   Nanoscale

Dynamic Clustering in Active Colloidal Suspensions with Chemical Signaling

(2012) I. Theurkauff et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Micromachine-Enabled Capture and Isolation of Cancer Cells in Complex Media

(2011) Shankar Balasubramanian et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Functionalized Micromachines for Selective and Rapid Isolation of Nucleic Acid Targets from Complex Samples

(2011) Daniel Kagan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Bacterial Isolation by Lectin-Modified Microengines

(2011) Susana Campuzano et al.   NANO LETTERS

Hybrid Nanomotor: A Catalytically/Magnetically Powered Adaptive Nanowire Swimmer

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   Small

Catalytic nanomotors: fabrication, mechanism, and applications

(2011) John Gibbs et al.   Frontiers of Materials Science

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

A Biomimetic, Self-Pumping Membrane

(2010) In-Kook Jun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Chemically Triggered Swarming of Gold Microparticles

(2010) Daniel Kagan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dynamics of Bacterial Swarming

(2010) Nicholas C. Darnton et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Propulsion of nanowire diodes

(2010) Percy Calvo-Marzal et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Controlled manipulation of multiple cells using catalytic microbots

(2010) Samuel Sanchez et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Propulsion of Microobjects by Dynamic Bipolar Self-Regeneration

(2010) Gabriel Loget et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electrochemically powered self-propelled electrophoretic nanosubmarines

(2010) Martin Pumera   Nanoscale

Magnetically actuated propulsion at low Reynolds numbers: towards nanoscale control

(2010) Peer Fischer et al.   Nanoscale

Light-driven nanoscale plasmonic motors

(2010) Ming Liu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

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

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

Self-Organized Multiconstituent Catalytic Nanomotors

(2010) John G. Gibbs et al.   Small

Rapid Delivery of Drug Carriers Propelled and Navigated by Catalytic Nanoshuttles

(2010) Daniel Kagan et al.   Small

In pursuit of propulsion at the nanoscale

(2010) Stephen J. Ebbens et al.   Soft Matter

Motion-based DNA detection using catalytic nanomotors

(2010) Jie Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Schooling Behavior of Light-Powered Autonomous Micromotors in Water

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

Chemical Sensing Based on Catalytic Nanomotors: Motion-Based Detection of Trace Silver

(2009) Daniel Kagan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Characterizing the Swimming Properties of Artificial Bacterial Flagella

(2009) Li Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers

(2009) Ambarish Ghosh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Catalytic Motors for Transport of Colloidal Cargo

(2008) Shakuntala Sundararajan et al.   NANO LETTERS