Biohybrid and Bioinspired Magnetic Microswimmers

Tubular Micro/Nanomachines: From the Basics to Recent Advances

(2018) Borui Xu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Feedback Control of an Achiral Robotic Microswimmer

(2017) U Kei Cheang et al.   Journal of Bionic Engineering

Pattern formation and collective effects in populations of magnetic microswimmers

(2017) Peter J Vach et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

The tailored sperm cell

(2017) Luis Alvarez   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

(2017) Hakan Ceylan et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Medical microbots need better imaging and control

(2017) Mariana Medina-Sánchez et al.   NATURE

Inner Workings: Medical microrobots have potential in surgery, therapy, imaging, and diagnostics

(2017) Stephen Ornes   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chiroptically Active Metallic Nanohelices with Helical Anisotropy

(2017) Zhifeng Huang et al.   Small

Biohybrid Microtube Swimmers Driven by Single Captured Bacteria

(2017) Morgan M. Stanton et al.   Small

Human sperm steer with second harmonics of the flagellar beat

(2017) Guglielmo Saggiorato et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Bacteria-inspired nanorobots with flagellar polymorphic transformations and bundling

(2017) Jamel Ali et al.   Scientific Reports

Hybrid BioMicromotors

(2017) Lukas Schwarz et al.   Applied Physics Reviews

Tubular micro/nanoengines: boost motility in a tiny world

(2017) Borui Xu et al.   Science Bulletin

Dynamics of arbitrary shaped propellers driven by a rotating magnetic field

(2017) Konstantin I. Morozov et al.   Physical Review Fluids

Magnetically controlled ferromagnetic swimmers

(2017) Joshua K. Hamilton et al.   Scientific Reports

Motion Control of Urea-Powered Biocompatible Hollow Microcapsules

(2016) Xing Ma et al.   ACS Nano

Actuating Soft Matter with Magnetic Torque

(2016) Randall M. Erb et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

(2016) Ouajdi Felfoul et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments

(2016) Clemens Bechinger et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Magnetically Propelled Fish-Like Nanoswimmers

(2016) Tianlong Li et al.   Small

Soft micromachines with programmable motility and morphology

(2016) Hen-Wei Huang et al.   Nature Communications

Fabrication and Manipulation of Ciliary Microrobots with Non-reciprocal Magnetic Actuation

(2016) Sangwon Kim et al.   Scientific Reports

Switching between Magnetotactic and Aerotactic Displacement Controls to Enhance the Efficacy of MC-1 Magneto-Aerotactic Bacteria as Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots

(2016) Sylvain Martel et al.   Micromachines

The Microbial Olympics 2016

(2016) Michaeline B. Nelson et al.   Nature Microbiology

Destabilization of a flow focused suspension of magnetotactic bacteria

(2016) Nicolas Waisbord et al.   Physical Review Fluids

On-chip Microfluidic Multimodal Swimmer toward 3D Navigation

(2016) Antoine Barbot et al.   Scientific Reports

Simultaneous steering and imaging of magnetic particles using MRI toward delivery of therapeutics

(2016) Ouajdi Felfoul et al.   Scientific Reports

Independent Positioning of Magnetic Nanomotors

(2015) Pranay Mandal et al.   ACS Nano

Magnetite Nanostructured Porous Hollow Helical Microswimmers for Targeted Delivery

(2015) Xiaohui Yan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Magnetically Driven Silver-Coated Nanocoils for Efficient Bacterial Contact Killing

(2015) Marcus Hoop et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Magnetic Helical Microswimmers Functionalized with Lipoplexes for Targeted Gene Delivery

(2015) Famin Qiu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Controlled In Vivo Swimming of a Swarm of Bacteria-Like Microrobotic Flagella

(2015) Ania Servant 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 hybrid actuated microrobot using an electromagnetic field and flagellated bacteria for tumor-targeting therapy

(2015) Donghai Li et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Fabrication of Micro/Nanoscale Motors

(2015) Hong Wang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Enhanced Diffusion of Glucose-Fueled Janus Particles

(2015) Philipp Schattling et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Steering magnetic micropropellers along independent trajectories

(2015) Peter J Vach et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Applications of three-dimensional (3D) printing for microswimmers and bio-hybrid robotics

(2015) M. M. Stanton et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Fast Magnetic Micropropellers with Random Shapes

(2015) Peter J. Vach et al.   NANO LETTERS

Cellular Cargo Delivery: Toward Assisted Fertilization by Sperm-Carrying Micromotors

(2015) Mariana Medina-Sánchez et al.   NANO LETTERS

Magneto–Acoustic Hybrid Nanomotor

(2015) Jinxing Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Undulatory Locomotion of Magnetic Multilink Nanoswimmers

(2015) Bumjin Jang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enzyme-Powered Hollow Mesoporous Janus Nanomotors

(2015) Xing Ma et al.   NANO LETTERS

RBC micromotors carrying multiple cargos towards potential theranostic applications

(2015) Zhiguang Wu et al.   Nanoscale

Fast-Moving Bacteria Self-Organize into Active Two-Dimensional Crystals of Rotating Cells

(2015) Alexander P. Petroff et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Biomedical Applications of Untethered Mobile Milli/Microrobots

(2015) Metin Sitti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

High-throughput 3D tracking of bacteria on a standard phase contrast microscope

(2015) K.M. Taute et al.   Nature Communications

Sperm navigation along helical paths in 3D chemoattractant landscapes

(2015) Jan F. Jikeli et al.   Nature Communications

Magnetic Actuation Based Motion Control for Microrobots: An Overview

(2015) Tiantian Xu et al.   Micromachines

Biohybrid Janus Motors Driven byEscherichia coli

(2015) Morgan M. Stanton et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

The triathlon of magnetic actuation: Rolling, propelling, swimming with a single magnetic material

(2015) Peter J. Vach et al.   Scientific Reports

The Environmental Impact of Micro/Nanomachines: A Review

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   ACS Nano

Covalent Binding of Nanoliposomes to the Surface of Magnetotactic Bacteria for the Synthesis of Self-Propelled Therapeutic Agents

(2014) Samira Taherkhani et al.   ACS Nano

Artificial Magnetic Bacteria: Living Magnets at Room Temperature

(2014) Miguel Martín et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Magnetite Crystal Orientation in Magnetosome Chains

(2014) André Körnig et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Diversity of Magneto-Aerotactic Behaviors and Oxygen Sensing Mechanisms in Cultured Magnetotactic Bacteria

(2014) Christopher T. Lefèvre et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Spermbots: potential impact for drug delivery and assisted reproductive technologies

(2014) Veronika Magdanz et al.   Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery

Magnetic steering control of multi-cellular bio-hybrid microswimmers

(2014) Rika Wright Carlsen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

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

(2014) Pooyath Lekshmy Venugopalan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Minimal geometric requirements for micropropulsion via magnetic rotation

(2014) U Kei Cheang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

How the Motility Pattern of Bacteria Affects Their Dispersal and Chemotaxis

(2014) Johannes Taktikos et al.   PLoS One

Influence of Magnetic Fields on Magneto-Aerotaxis

(2014) Mathieu Bennet et al.   PLoS One

Swimming by reciprocal motion at low Reynolds number

(2014) Tian Qiu et al.   Nature Communications

Polarity of bacterial magnetotaxis is controlled by aerotaxis through a common sensory pathway

(2014) Felix Popp et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Development of a Sperm-Flagella Driven Micro-Bio-Robot

(2013) Veronika Magdanz et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Three-dimensional remote aggregation and steering of magnetotactic bacteria microrobots for drug delivery applications

(2013) Dominic de Lanauze et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Chiral Colloidal Molecules And Observation of The Propeller Effect

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

Selecting for Function: Solution Synthesis of Magnetic Nanopropellers

(2013) Peter J. Vach 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

The chiral magnetic nanomotors

(2013) Konstantin I. Morozov et al.   Nanoscale

Bacteria can exploit a flagellar buckling instability to change direction

(2013) Kwangmin Son et al.   Nature Physics

The computational sperm cell

(2013) Luis Alvarez et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Nano/Microscale Motors: Biomedical Opportunities and Challenges

(2012) Joseph Wang et al.   ACS Nano

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

(2012) Larysa Baraban 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

Three-dimensional control ofTetrahymena pyriformisusing artificial magnetotaxis

(2012) Dal Hyung Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Magnetococcus marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine, magnetotactic bacterium that represents a novel lineage (Magnetococcaceae fam. nov., Magnetococcales ord. nov.) at the base of the Alphaproteobacteria

(2012) D. A. Bazylinski et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Cancer hyperthermia using magnetic nanoparticles

(2011) Takeshi Kobayashi   Biotechnology Journal

Minimum-Time Optimal Control of Many Robots that Move in the Same Direction at Different Speeds

(2011) Timothy Bretl   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Tethered fleximags as artificial cilia

(2011) AVIN BABATAHERI et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Reverse and flick: Hybrid locomotion in bacteria

(2011) R. Stocker   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Cultured Greigite-Producing Magnetotactic Bacterium in a Novel Group of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

(2011) C. T. Lefevre et al.   SCIENCE

Hybrid Nanomotor: A Catalytically/Magnetically Powered Adaptive Nanowire Swimmer

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   Small

High-speed propulsion of flexible nanowire motors: Theory and experiments

(2011) On Shun Pak et al.   Soft Matter

Template-Assisted Fabrication of Salt-Independent Catalytic Tubular Microengines

(2010) Kalayil Manian Manesh et al.   ACS Nano

Magnetic Control of Tubular Catalytic Microbots for the Transport, Assembly, and Delivery of Micro-objects

(2010) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Artificial magnetotactic motion control of Tetrahymena pyriformis using ferromagnetic nanoparticles: A tool for fabrication of microbiorobots

(2010) Dal Hyung Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Magnetically Powered Flexible Metal Nanowire Motors

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

Oscillatory Flows Induced by Microorganisms Swimming in Two Dimensions

(2010) Jeffrey S. Guasto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Direct Measurement of the Flow Field around Swimming Microorganisms

(2010) Knut Drescher et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Artificial bacterial flagella: Fabrication and magnetic control

(2009) Li Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Flagellated Magnetotactic Bacteria as Controlled MRI-trackable Propulsion and Steering Systems for Medical Nanorobots Operating in the Human Microvasculature

(2009) Sylvain Martel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

How Should Microrobots Swim?

(2009) Jake J. Abbott et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Preparation of biodegradable magnetic microspheres with poly(lactic acid)-coated magnetite

(2009) Hong Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS

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

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

Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers

(2009) Ambarish Ghosh et al.   NANO LETTERS

The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

(2009) Eric Lauga et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Catalytic Microtubular Jet Engines Self-Propelled by Accumulated Gas Bubbles

(2009) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   Small

Versatile Approach for Integrative and Functionalized Tubes by Strain Engineering of Nanomembranes on Polymers

(2008) Yongfeng Mei et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Do magnetic micro-swimmers move like eukaryotic cells?

(2008) M. Roper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES