Mini and Micro Propulsion for Medical Swimmers

A self-propelled biohybrid swimmer at low Reynolds number

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

Propulsion of a microsubmarine using a thermally oscillatory approach

(2013) Lei Qiao et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Colocalization of Quantum Dots by Reactive Molecules Carried by Motor Proteins on Polarized Microtubule Arrays

(2012) Kazuya Fujimoto et al.   ACS Nano

Active Brownian motion tunable by light

(2012) Ivo Buttinoni et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Sprinkler head revisited: momentum, forces, and flows in Machian propulsion

(2011) Alejandro Jenkins   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

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

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

Microswimmers in patterned environments

(2011) Giovanni Volpe et al.   Soft Matter

Magnetically Powered Flexible Metal Nanowire Motors

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

Propulsion of Microobjects by Dynamic Bipolar Self-Regeneration

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

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

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

Swallowable medical devices for diagnosis and surgery: The state of the art

(2010) J L Toennies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART C-JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

An in-pipe wireless swimming microrobot driven by giant magnetostrictive thin film

(2010) Wei Liu et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

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

How Should Microrobots Swim?

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

A millisecond micromixer via single-bubble-based acoustic streaming

(2009) Daniel Ahmed et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A nano-needle/microtubule composite gliding on a kinesin-coated surface for target molecule transport

(2009) Mehmet C. Tarhan et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

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

Voyage of the microrobots

(2009) Metin Sitti   NATURE

The rise of the miniature medical robots

(2009) Gaia Vince et al.   NEW SCIENTIST

The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

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

Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale

(2009) Peter Hänggi et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Catalytic Microtubular Jet Engines Self-Propelled by Accumulated Gas Bubbles

(2009) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   Small

Motion Control at the Nanoscale

(2009) Joseph Wang et al.   Small

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

Osmotic Propulsion: The Osmotic Motor

(2008) Ubaldo M. Córdova-Figueroa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A micro-robot fish with embedded SMA wire actuated flexible biomimetic fin

(2008) Zhenlong Wang et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

A basic swimmer at low Reynolds number

(2008) Marco Leoni et al.   Soft Matter