Man-made rotary nanomotors: a review of recent developments

Electrically Driven Magnetic Domain Wall Rotation in Multiferroic Heterostructures to Manipulate Suspended On-Chip Magnetic Particles

(2015) Hyunmin Sohn et al.   ACS Nano

Gold Nanorod Rotary Motors Driven by Resonant Light Scattering

(2015) Lei Shao et al.   ACS Nano

An Optically Driven Bistable Janus Rotor with Patterned Metal Coatings

(2015) Yiwu Zong et al.   ACS Nano

Tunable Release of Multiplex Biochemicals by Plasmonically Active Rotary Nanomotors

(2015) Xiaobin Xu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Active colloidal microdrills

(2015) J. G. Gibbs et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Fabrication of Micro/Nanoscale Motors

(2015) Hong Wang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Nanotube-Enabled Vesicle–Vesicle Communication: A Computational Model

(2015) Liuyang Zhang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Optimal Length of Low Reynolds Number Nanopropellers

(2015) D. Walker et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ultra-durable rotary micromotors assembled from nanoentities by electric fields

(2015) Jianhe Guo et al.   Nanoscale

Acoustic separation of circulating tumor cells

(2015) Peng Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fabrication and Robotization of Ultrasensitive Plasmonic Nanosensors for Molecule Detection with Raman Scattering

(2015) Xiaobin Xu et al.   SENSORS

Recent Progress on Man-Made Inorganic Nanomachines

(2015) Kwanoh Kim et al.   Small

Selectively manipulable acoustic-powered microswimmers

(2015) Daniel Ahmed et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

Micromotors with Step-Motor Characteristics by Controlled Magnetic Interactions among Assembled Components

(2014) Kwanoh Kim et al.   ACS Nano

Nanopropellers and Their Actuation in Complex Viscoelastic Media

(2014) Debora Schamel et al.   ACS Nano

Electric-Driven Rotation of Silicon Nanowires and Silicon Nanowire Motors

(2014) Xiaobin Xu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Acoustic Propulsion of Nanorod Motors Inside Living Cells

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

Nano/Micromotors in (Bio)chemical Science Applications

(2014) Maria Guix et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Generation of microfluidic flow using an optically assembled and magnetically driven microrotor

(2014) J Köhler et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Selecting the Swimming Mechanisms of Colloidal Particles: Bubble Propulsion versus Self-Diffusiophoresis

(2014) Sijia Wang et al.   LANGMUIR

Conformal Cytocompatible Ferrite Coatings Facilitate the Realization of a Nanovoyager in Human Blood

(2014) Pooyath Lekshmy Venugopalan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Synthetic micro/nanomotors in drug delivery

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   Nanoscale

Rotating Au nanorod and nanowire driven by circularly polarized light

(2014) Jiunn-Woei Liaw et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Controlling cell–cell interactions using surface acoustic waves

(2014) Feng Guo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell separation using tilted-angle standing surface acoustic waves

(2014) X. Ding et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plasmon-induced Lorentz forces of nanowire chiral hybrid modes

(2014) Matthew Moocarme et al.   Optical Materials Express

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

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

Tunable Nanowire Patterning Using Standing Surface Acoustic Waves

(2013) Yuchao Chen et al.   ACS Nano

Near-Field Enhanced Plasmonic-Magnetic Bifunctional Nanotubes for Single Cell Bioanalysis

(2013) Xiaobin Xu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Self-Propelled Micromotors Driven by the Magnesium-Water Reaction and Their Hemolytic Properties

(2013) Fangzhi Mou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Optical Vortex Induced Rotation of Silver Nanowires

(2013) Zijie Yan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

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

(2013) Suzanne Ahmed et al.   LANGMUIR

Assembly, Disassembly, and Anomalous Propulsion of Microscopic Helices

(2013) Soichiro Tottori et al.   NANO LETTERS

Bioinspired Helical Microswimmers Based on Vascular Plants

(2013) Wei Gao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Template electrosynthesis of tailored-made helical nanoswimmers

(2013) Jinxing Li et al.   Nanoscale

Controlling the Position and Orientation of Single Silver Nanowires on a Surface Using Structured Optical Fields

(2012) Zijie Yan et al.   ACS Nano

Water-Driven Micromotors

(2012) Wei Gao et al.   ACS Nano

Autonomous Motion of Metallic Microrods Propelled by Ultrasound

(2012) Wei Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Self-Propelled Nanotools

(2012) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   ACS Nano

Ordered Arrays of Raman Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive and Location Predictable Biochemical Detection

(2012) Xiaobin Xu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2012) Soichiro Tottori et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biopsy with Thermally-Responsive Untethered Microtools

(2012) Evin Gultepe et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Recent Advances in Magnetic Tweezers

(2012) Iwijn De Vlaminck et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

A light-driven turbine-like micro-rotor and study on its light-to-mechanical power conversion efficiency

(2012) Xiao-Feng Lin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Cargo-towing synthetic nanomachines: Towards active transport in microchip devices

(2012) Joseph Wang   LAB ON A CHIP

Mechanical Properties of Si Nanowires as Revealed by in Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

(2012) Dai-Ming Tang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Targeted cargo delivery using a rotating nickel nanowire

(2012) Li Zhang et al.   Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine

Rolled-up magnetic microdrillers: towards remotely controlled minimally invasive surgery

(2012) Wang Xi et al.   Nanoscale

Single-protein nanomechanical mass spectrometry in real time

(2012) M. S. Hanay et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Dynamical configurations and bistability of helical nanostructures under external torque

(2012) Arijit Ghosh et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Electronic properties of nanoentities revealed by electrically driven rotation

(2012) D. L. Fan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On-chip manipulation of single microparticles, cells, and organisms using surface acoustic waves

(2012) X. Ding et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Motion-driven sensing and biosensing using electrochemically propelled nanomotors

(2011) S. Campuzano et al.   ANALYST

Shaping and exploring the micro- and nanoworld using bipolar electrochemistry

(2011) Gabriel Loget et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Rotational microfluidic motor for on-chip microcentrifugation

(2011) Richie J. Shilton et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Versatile Procedure for Synthesis of Janus-Type Carbon Tubes

(2011) Gabriel Loget et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Autonomous Nanomotor Based on Copper–Platinum Segmented Nanobattery

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

Hydrogen-Bubble-Propelled Zinc-Based Microrockets in Strongly Acidic Media

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

Holographic optical tweezers and their relevance to lab on chip devices

(2011) Miles Padgett et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Wet-Chemical Synthesis of Palladium Nanosprings

(2011) Lichun Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Electric tweezers

(2011) D.L. Fan et al.   Nano Today

Optically driven Archimedes micro-screws for micropump application

(2011) Chih-Lang Lin et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

A method to track rotational motion for use in single-molecule biophysics

(2011) Jan Lipfert et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Cargo-Towing Fuel-Free Magnetic Nanoswimmers for Targeted Drug Delivery

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   Small

Freely orbiting magnetic tweezers to directly monitor changes in the twist of nucleic acids

(2011) Jan Lipfert et al.   Nature Communications

Electric field-induced chemical locomotion of conducting objects

(2011) Gabriel Loget et al.   Nature Communications

Trapping and rotating nanoparticles using a plasmonic nano-tweezer with an integrated heat sink

(2011) Kai Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Controlled Propulsion and Cargo Transport of Rotating Nickel Nanowires near a Patterned Solid Surface

(2010) Li Zhang et al.   ACS Nano

Microrobots for Minimally Invasive Medicine

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

Ultrafast nanotube based diffusiophoresis nanomotors

(2010) Wei Liu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Magnetically Powered Flexible Metal Nanowire Motors

(2010) Wei Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Artificial bacterial flagella for micromanipulation

(2010) Li Zhang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation

(2010) Jon A. Schuller et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Magnetic torque tweezers: measuring torsional stiffness in DNA and RecA-DNA filaments

(2010) Jan Lipfert et al.   NATURE METHODS

Subcellular-resolution delivery of a cytokine through precisely manipulated nanowires

(2010) Donglei Fan et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Light-driven nanoscale plasmonic motors

(2010) Ming Liu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Controlled propulsion in viscous fluids of magnetically actuated colloidal doublets

(2010) Pietro Tierno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Bacterial ratchet motors

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

Self-Organized Multiconstituent Catalytic Nanomotors

(2010) John G. Gibbs et al.   Small

Catalytic Nanomotors: Self-Propelled Sphere Dimers

(2010) Leonardo F. Valadares et al.   Small

Rotation Detection in Light-Driven Nanorotors

(2009) P. H. Jones et al.   ACS Nano

Autonomously motile catalytic nanomotors by bubble propulsion

(2009) J. G. Gibbs et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Artificial bacterial flagella: Fabrication and magnetic control

(2009) Li Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Dynamic Interactions between Fast Microscale Rotors

(2009) Yang Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

Acoustic tweezers: patterning cells and microparticles using standing surface acoustic waves (SSAW)

(2009) Jinjie Shi et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Magnetic Tweezers Measurement of Single Molecule Torque

(2009) Alfredo Celedon et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

Optically driven micropump with a twin spiral microrotor

(2009) Shoji Maruo et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Measurement of the Torque on a Single Stretched and Twisted DNA Using Magnetic Tweezers

(2009) Francesco Mosconi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Controlled surface-induced flows from the motion of self-assembled colloidal walkers

(2009) C. E. Sing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Design and Characterization of Rotational Multicomponent Catalytic Nanomotors

(2009) J. G. Gibbs et al.   Small

Carbon-Nanotube-Induced Acceleration of Catalytic Nanomotors

(2008) Rawiwan Laocharoensuk et al.   ACS Nano

Precision transport and assembling of nanowires in suspension by electric fields

(2008) D. L. Fan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a Rotary Micromotor Supported on Microball Bearings

(2008) N. Ghalichechian et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Magnetically Actuated Colloidal Microswimmers

(2008) Pietro Tierno et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Synthetic Nanomotors in Microchannel Networks: Directional Microchip Motion and Controlled Manipulation of Cargo

(2008) Jared Burdick et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Catalytic Motors for Transport of Colloidal Cargo

(2008) Shakuntala Sundararajan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Dissymmetric Carbon Nanotubes by Bipolar Electrochemistry

(2008) Chompunuch Warakulwit et al.   NANO LETTERS

Controlled Swimming in Confined Fluids of Magnetically Actuated Colloidal Rotors

(2008) Pietro Tierno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS