Self‐Propelled Micro/Nanomotors for On‐Demand Biomedical Cargo Transportation

Bio-inspired nitric-oxide-driven nanomotor

(2019) Mimi Wan et al.   Nature Communications

Biomimetic Micromotor Enables Active Delivery of Antigens for Oral Vaccination

(2019) Xiaoli Wei et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self-Sensing Enzyme-Powered Micromotors Equipped with pH-Responsive DNA Nanoswitches

(2019) Tania Patino et al.   NANO LETTERS

The Application of Micro‐ and Nanomotors in Classified Drug Delivery

(2019) Shuanghu Wang et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Light-Guided Nanomotor Systems for Autonomous Photothermal Cancer Therapy

(2018) Hyunsik Choi et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Fuel-Free Light-Powered TiO2/Pt Janus Micromotors for Enhanced Nitroaromatic Explosives Degradation

(2018) Lei Kong et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Erythrocyte Membrane Modified Janus Polymeric Motors for Thrombus Therapy

(2018) Jingxin Shao et al.   ACS Nano

Magnetically Actuated Peanut Colloid Motors for Cell Manipulation and Patterning

(2018) Zhihua Lin et al.   ACS Nano

Surface-Chemistry-Mediated Control of Individual Magnetic Helical Microswimmers in a Swarm

(2018) Xiaopu Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Medical Imaging for the Tracking of Micromotors

(2018) Diana Vilela et al.   ACS Nano

Precision-Guided Nanospears for Targeted and High-Throughput Intracellular Gene Delivery

(2018) Xiaobin Xu et al.   ACS Nano

Electric-Field-Guided Precision Manipulation of Catalytic Nanomotors for Cargo Delivery and Powering Nanoelectromechanical Devices

(2018) Jianhe Guo et al.   ACS Nano

Micro-/Nanorobots at Work in Active Drug Delivery

(2018) Ming Luo et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Light-Driven Janus Hollow Mesoporous TiO2 -Au Microswimmers

(2018) Varun Sridhar et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Fuel-Free Nanocap-Like Motors Actuated Under Visible Light

(2018) Xu Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Maneuverability of Magnetic Nanomotors Inside Living Cells

(2018) Malay Pal et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Progress toward Catalytic Micro- and Nanomotors for Biomedical and Environmental Applications

(2018) Muhammad Safdar et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Active Intracellular Delivery of a Cas9/sgRNA Complex Using Ultrasound-Propelled Nanomotors

(2018) Malthe Hansen-Bruhn et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Noncontinuous Super-Diffusive Dynamics of a Light-Activated Nanobottle Motor

(2018) Mingjun Xuan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Influence of Enzyme Quantity and Distribution on the Self-Propulsion of Non-Janus Urease-Powered Micromotors

(2018) Tania Patiño et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photochemically Powered AgCl Janus Micromotors as a Model System to Understand Ionic Self-Diffusiophoresis

(2018) Chao Zhou et al.   LANGMUIR

Magnetically Actuated Rolling of Star-Shaped Hydrogel Microswimmer

(2018) Narisu Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Magnetically Powered Annelid-Worm-Like Microswimmers

(2018) Yiman Liu et al.   Small

Magnesium-Based Micromotors: Water-Powered Propulsion, Multifunctionality, and Biomedical and Environmental Applications

(2018) Chuanrui Chen et al.   Small

Biohybrid and Bioinspired Magnetic Microswimmers

(2018) Klaas Bente et al.   Small

Active colloids as mobile microelectrodes for unified label-free selective cargo transport

(2018) Alicia M. Boymelgreen et al.   Nature Communications

Motility and chemotaxis of bacteria-driven microswimmers fabricated using antigen 43-mediated biotin display

(2018) Oliver Schauer et al.   Scientific Reports

Light-Powered Micro/Nanomotors

(2018) Hongxu Chen et al.   Micromachines

Biomedical applications of soft robotics

(2018) Matteo Cianchetti et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Bioinspired microrobots

(2018) Stefano Palagi et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Diffusion Measurements of Swimming Enzymes with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

(2018) Jan-Philipp Günther et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Light-Driven Micro/Nanomotor for Promising Biomedical Tools: Principle, Challenge, and Prospect

(2018) Jizhuang Wang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Photocatalytic Micro/Nanomotors: From Construction to Applications

(2018) Renfeng Dong et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Enhanced Diffusion and Chemotaxis at the Nanoscale

(2018) Jaime Agudo-Canalejo et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Powering Motion with Enzymes

(2018) Xi Zhao et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Shape-Transformable, Fusible Rodlike Swimming Liquid Metal Nanomachine

(2018) Daolin Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Micromotors for drug delivery in vivo: The road ahead

(2018) Sarvesh Kumar Srivastava et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

Photocatalytically Powered Matchlike Nanomotor for Light-Guided Active SERS Sensing

(2018) Yong Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Theory of Enzyme Chemotaxis: From Experiments to Modeling

(2018) Farzad Mohajerani et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Chemotaxis of Active Janus Nanoparticles

(2018) Mihail N. Popescu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enzyme-powered motility in buoyant organoclay/DNA protocells

(2018) B. V. V. S. Pavan Kumar et al.   Nature Chemistry

Enzymatically Powered Surface-Associated Self-Motile Protocells

(2018) Woo-Sik Jang et al.   Small

Intelligent Micro/nanomotors with Taxis

(2018) Ming You et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Artificial Chemotaxis of Self-Phoretic Active Colloids: Collective Behavior

(2018) Holger Stark   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Fundamental Aspects of Enzyme-Powered Micro- and Nanoswimmers

(2018) Tania Patiño et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Targeting 3D Bladder Cancer Spheroids with Urease-Powered Nanomotors

(2018) Ana C. Hortelão et al.   ACS Nano

Micro-/Nanorobots Propelled by Oscillating Magnetic Fields

(2018) Hao Yu et al.   Micromachines

A swarm of slippery micropropellers penetrates the vitreous body of the eye

(2018) Zhiguang Wu et al.   Science Advances

Visible-Light-Driven BiOI-Based Janus Micromotor in Pure Water

(2017) Renfeng Dong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

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

Forecastable and Guidable Bubble-Propelled Microplate Motors for Cell Transport

(2017) Narisu Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Ultrasound-propelled nanowire motors enhance asparaginase enzymatic activity against cancer cells

(2017) Murat Uygun et al.   Nanoscale

A phototactic micromotor based on platinum nanoparticle decorated carbon nitride

(2017) Zhenrong Ye et al.   Nanoscale

Biohybrid Microtube Swimmers Driven by Single Captured Bacteria

(2017) Morgan M. Stanton et al.   Small

Nano/microvehicles for efficient delivery and (bio)sensing at the cellular level

(2017) S. Campuzano et al.   Chemical Science

Neutrophil-inspired propulsion in a combined acoustic and magnetic field

(2017) Daniel Ahmed 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

Orthogonal navigation of multiple visible-light-driven artificial microswimmers

(2017) Jing Zheng et al.   Nature Communications

Motion-based glucose sensing based on a fish-like enzymeless motor

(2017) Mingtong Li et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Chemotactic synthetic vesicles: Design and applications in blood-brain barrier crossing

(2017) Adrian Joseph et al.   Science Advances

Designing Micro- and Nanoswimmers for Specific Applications

(2016) Jaideep Katuri et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Acoustically Propelled Nanomotors for Intracellular siRNA Delivery

(2016) Berta Esteban-Fernández de Ávila et al.   ACS Nano

Reversed Janus Micro/Nanomotors with Internal Chemical Engine

(2016) Xing Ma et al.   ACS Nano

Rocket Science at the Nanoscale

(2016) Jinxing Li et al.   ACS Nano

Ultrasound-Induced Reactive Oxygen Species Mediated Therapy and Imaging Using a Fenton Reaction Activable Polymersome

(2016) Wei-Peng Li et al.   ACS Nano

Progress toward Light-Harvesting Self-Electrophoretic Motors: Highly Efficient Bimetallic Nanomotors and Micropumps in Halogen Media

(2016) Flory Wong et al.   ACS Nano

Dynamic Loading and Unloading of Proteins in Polymeric Stomatocytes: Formation of an Enzyme-Loaded Supramolecular Nanomotor

(2016) Loai K. E. A. Abdelmohsen et al.   ACS Nano

Motion Control of Urea-Powered Biocompatible Hollow Microcapsules

(2016) Xing Ma et al.   ACS Nano

Enzyme Catalysis To Power Micro/Nanomachines

(2016) Xing Ma et al.   ACS Nano

Supramolecular Adaptive Nanomotors with Magnetotaxis Behavior

(2016) Fei Peng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Steered Isotropic Semiconductor Micromotors

(2016) Chuanrui Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Near Infrared Light-Powered Janus Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Motors

(2016) Mingjun Xuan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Motion-based pH sensing using spindle-like micromotors

(2016) Limei Liu et al.   Nano Research

Acoustically propelled nanoshells

(2016) Fernando Soto et al.   Nanoscale

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

(2016) Ouajdi Felfoul et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Programmable artificial phototactic microswimmer

(2016) Baohu Dai et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Chemotaxis of bio-hybrid multiple bacteria-driven microswimmers

(2016) Jiang Zhuang et al.   Scientific Reports

Highly Efficient Light-Driven TiO2–Au Janus Micromotors

(2015) Renfeng Dong et al.   ACS Nano

Magnetic Helical Microswimmers Functionalized with Lipoplexes for Targeted Gene Delivery

(2015) Famin Qiu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Novel Magnetic Hydrogel with Aligned Magnetic Colloidal Assemblies Showing Controllable Enhancement of Magnetothermal Effect in the Presence of Alternating Magnetic Field

(2015) Ke Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-Guided Supramolecular Cargo-Loaded Nanomotors with Chemotactic Behavior towards Cells

(2015) Fei Peng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A bio-catalytically driven Janus mesoporous silica cluster motor with magnetic guidance

(2015) Xing Ma et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Fabrication of Micro/Nanoscale Motors

(2015) Hong Wang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Catalytic Mesoporous Janus Nanomotors for Active Cargo Delivery

(2015) Xing Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

Micromotors Powered by Enzyme Catalysis

(2015) Krishna K. Dey et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enzyme-Powered Hollow Mesoporous Janus Nanomotors

(2015) Xing Ma et al.   NANO LETTERS

Superfast Near-Infrared Light-Driven Polymer Multilayer Rockets

(2015) Zhiguang Wu et al.   Small

Trajectory Control of Self-Propelled Micromotors Using AC Electrokinetics

(2015) Yoshitaka Yoshizumi et al.   Small

pH-Taxis of Biohybrid Microsystems

(2015) Jiang Zhuang et al.   Scientific Reports

Biohybrid Janus Motors Driven byEscherichia coli

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

Enzymatically active biomimetic micropropellers for the penetration of mucin gels

(2015) D. Walker et al.   Science Advances

Self-Propelled Polymer Multilayer Janus Capsules for Effective Drug Delivery and Light-Triggered Release

(2014) Yingjie Wu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Biodegradable Protein-Based Rockets for Drug Transportation and Light-Triggered Release

(2014) Zhiguang Wu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Micro- and Nanorobots Swimming in Heterogeneous Liquids

(2014) Bradley J. Nelson et al.   ACS Nano

Nanopropellers and Their Actuation in Complex Viscoelastic Media

(2014) Debora Schamel et al.   ACS Nano

Turning Erythrocytes into Functional Micromotors

(2014) Zhiguang Wu et al.   ACS Nano

The Environmental Impact of Micro/Nanomachines: A Review

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   ACS Nano

Chemotactic Separation of Enzymes

(2014) Krishna Kanti Dey et al.   ACS Nano

Chemically Powered Micro- and Nanomotors

(2014) Samuel Sánchez et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-Propelled Janus Mesoporous Silica Nanomotors with Sub-100 nm Diameters for Drug Encapsulation and Delivery

(2014) Mingjun Xuan et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Magnetic steering control of multi-cellular bio-hybrid microswimmers

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

Synthetic micro/nanomotors in drug delivery

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   Nanoscale

Self-powered enzyme micropumps

(2014) Samudra Sengupta et al.   Nature Chemistry

Micromotor Enhanced Microarray Technology for Protein Detection

(2014) Eden Morales-Narváez et al.   Small

Fully Loaded Micromotors for Combinatorial Delivery and Autonomous Release of Cargoes

(2014) Sirilak Sattayasamitsathit et al.   Small

Artificial Bacterial Flagella for Remote-Controlled Targeted Single-Cell Drug Delivery

(2014) Rami Mhanna et al.   Small

Gravitaxis of asymmetric self-propelled colloidal particles

(2014) Borge ten Hagen et al.   Nature Communications

Polymersome magneto-valves for reversible capture and release of nanoparticles

(2014) P.G. van Rhee et al.   Nature Communications

Ultrahigh-speed rotating nanoelectromechanical system devices assembled from nanoscale building blocks

(2014) Kwanoh Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Electroforming of Implantable Tubular Magnetic Microrobots for Wireless Ophthalmologic Applications

(2014) George Chatzipirpiridis et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

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

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

Optically Controlled Thermophoretic Trapping of Single Nano-Objects

(2013) Marco Braun et al.   ACS Nano

Fabrication and Characterization of Magnetic Microrobots for Three-Dimensional Cell Culture and Targeted Transportation

(2013) Sangwon Kim et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-Propelled Polymer-Based Multilayer Nanorockets for Transportation and Drug Release

(2013) Zhiguang Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Chemotactic Behavior of Catalytic Motors in Microfluidic Channels

(2013) Larysa Baraban et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Based Catalytic Micromotors for Selective Protein Transport

(2013) Jahir Orozco et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enzyme Molecules as Nanomotors

(2013) Samudra Sengupta 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

Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

(2013) Antoine Bricard et al.   NATURE

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

Magnetic Helical Micromachines

(2012) Kathrin E. Peyer et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Importance of Particle Tracking and Calculating the Mean-Squared Displacement in Distinguishing Nanopropulsion from Other Processes

(2012) Gary Dunderdale et al.   LANGMUIR

Autonomous movement of platinum-loaded stomatocytes

(2012) Daniela A. Wilson et al.   Nature Chemistry

Highly Efficient Catalytic Microengines: Template Electrosynthesis of Polyaniline/Platinum Microtubes

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

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

(2011) Daniel Kagan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Molecular Motors, Beauty in Complexity

(2011) J. A. Spudich   SCIENCE

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

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   Small

Electric field-induced chemical locomotion of conducting objects

(2011) Gabriel Loget 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

Propulsion of nanowire diodes

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

Dynamics of Biocatalytic Microengines Mediated by Variable Friction Control

(2010) Samuel Sanchez et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Substrate Catalysis Enhances Single-Enzyme Diffusion

(2010) Hari S. Muddana 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

Precision transport and assembling of nanowires in suspension by electric fields

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

Autonomous propulsion of carbon nanotubes powered by a multienzyme ensemble

(2007) Davide Pantarotto et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS