How to Make a Fast, Efficient Bubble-Driven Micromotor: A Mechanical View

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

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

On the peculiar bubble formation, growth, and collapse behaviors in catalytic micro-motor systems

(2017) Fengchang Yang et al.   Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Chitosan-based water-propelled micromotors with strong antibacterial activity

(2017) Jorge A. M. Delezuk et al.   Nanoscale

A Viscosity-Based Model for Bubble-Propelled Catalytic Micromotors

(2017) Zhen Wang et al.   Micromachines

Catalytic Propulsion and Magnetic Steering of Soft, Patchy Microcapsules: Ability to Pick-Up and Drop-Off Microscale Cargo

(2016) Annie Xi Lu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Ultrafast Nanocrystals Decorated Micromotors for On-Site Dynamic Chemical Processes

(2016) B. Jurado-Sánchez et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Density and Shape Effects in the Acoustic Propulsion of Bimetallic Nanorod Motors

(2016) Suzanne Ahmed et al.   ACS Nano

From Nanomotors to Micromotors: The Influence of the Size of an Autonomous Bubble-Propelled Device upon Its Motion

(2016) Hong Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Dynamic Polymeric Microtubes for the Remote-Controlled Capture, Guidance, and Release of Sperm Cells

(2016) Veronika Magdanz et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-propelled affinity biosensors: Moving the receptor around the sample

(2016) J. Wang   BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS

Beyond platinum: silver-catalyst based bubble-propelled tubular micromotors

(2016) Wei Zhe Teo et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Carbon Allotrope Nanomaterials Based Catalytic Micromotors

(2016) R. Maria-Hormigos et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Dynamics of a linear magnetic “microswimmer molecule”

(2016) S. Babel et al.   EPL

Tubular microjets: Fabrication, factors affecting the motion and mechanism of propulsion

(2016) Jemish Parmar et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

Micro Ultrasonic Motor Using a Cube With a Side Length of 0.5 mm

(2016) Tomoaki Mashimo   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Self-Diffusiophoresis of Janus Catalytic Micromotors in Confined Geometries

(2016) Fengchang Yang et al.   LANGMUIR

Programmed Transport and Release of Cells by Self-Propelled Micromotors

(2016) Yoshitaka Yoshizumi et al.   LANGMUIR

Geometrical Performance of Self-Phoretic Colloids and Microswimmers

(2016) Amir Nourhani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A microscopic model for chemically-powered Janus motors

(2016) Mu-Jie Huang et al.   Soft Matter

Self-propelled manganese oxide-based catalytic micromotors for drug delivery

(2016) Linlin Wang et al.   RSC Advances

Graphene-based Janus micromotors for the dynamic removal of pollutants

(2016) Jahir Orozco et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Influence of Asymmetry and Driving Forces on the Propulsion of Bubble-Propelled Catalytic Micromotors

(2016) Masayuki Hayakawa et al.   Micromachines

Artificial Micromotors in the Mouse’s Stomach: A Step toward in Vivo Use of Synthetic Motors

(2015) Wei Gao et al.   ACS Nano

Acoustic Microcannons: Toward Advanced Microballistics

(2015) Fernando Soto et al.   ACS Nano

Highly Efficient Light-Driven TiO2–Au Janus Micromotors

(2015) Renfeng Dong et al.   ACS Nano

An Optically Driven Bistable Janus Rotor with Patterned Metal Coatings

(2015) Yiwu Zong et al.   ACS Nano

Fabrication of Micro/Nanoscale Motors

(2015) Hong Wang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Influence of pH on the Motion of Catalytic Janus Particles and Tubular Bubble-Propelled Micromotors

(2015) James Guo Sheng Moo et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Catalytic Polymer Multilayer Shell Motors for Separation of Organics

(2015) Zhihua Lin et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Light-activated Janus self-assembled capsule micromotors

(2015) Mingjun Xuan et al.   COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS

Janus droplet as a catalytic micromotor

(2015) Sergey Shklyaev   EPL

Reversible Swarming and Separation of Self-Propelled Chemically Powered Nanomotors under Acoustic Fields

(2015) Tailin Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Catalytic Mesoporous Janus Nanomotors for Active Cargo Delivery

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

Visualization and measurement of the self-propelled and rotational motion of the Janus microparticles

(2015) Xu Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF VISUALIZATION

Shape-Controlled Fabrication of the Polymer-Based Micromotor Based on the Polydimethylsiloxane Template

(2015) Miaoda Su et al.   LANGMUIR

Optimal Length of Low Reynolds Number Nanopropellers

(2015) D. Walker et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self-Propelled Nanomotors Autonomously Seek and Repair Cracks

(2015) Jinxing Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enzyme-Powered Hollow Mesoporous Janus Nanomotors

(2015) Xing Ma et al.   NANO LETTERS

Motion-based threat detection using microrods: experiments and numerical simulations

(2015) Barath Ezhilan et al.   Nanoscale

Surface Conductive Graphene-Wrapped Micromotors Exhibiting Enhanced Motion

(2015) Xing Ma et al.   Small

Controlled motion of Janus particles in periodically phase-separating binary fluids

(2015) Takeaki Araki et al.   Soft Matter

Boundaries can steer active Janus spheres

(2015) Sambeeta Das et al.   Nature Communications

The role of hydrazine in mixed fuels (H2O2/N2H4) for Au–Fe/Ni nanomotors

(2015) Qing Xiao et al.   RSC Advances

Dual-Fuel-Driven Bactericidal Micromotor

(2015) Ya Ge et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Microrocket Based Viscometer

(2015) Lin Wang et al.   ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology

Dual-Fuel-Driven Bactericidal Micromotor

(2015) Ya Ge et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Water-Driven Micromotors for Rapid Photocatalytic Degradation of Biological and Chemical Warfare Agents

(2014) Jinxing Li et al.   ACS Nano

The Environmental Impact of Micro/Nanomachines: A Review

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   ACS Nano

Hydrophobic catalytic Janus motors: Slip boundary condition and enhanced catalytic reaction rate

(2014) Manoj Manjare et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Beyond Platinum: Bubble-Propelled Micromotors Based on Ag and MnO2 Catalysts

(2014) Hong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2014) Sijia Wang et al.   LANGMUIR

Tissue cell assisted fabrication of tubular catalytic platinum microengines

(2014) Hong Wang et al.   Nanoscale

Synthetic micro/nanomotors in drug delivery

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   Nanoscale

Self-Propelled Activated Carbon Janus Micromotors for Efficient Water Purification

(2014) Beatriz Jurado-Sánchez et al.   Small

Hydrodynamics and propulsion mechanism of self-propelled catalytic micromotors: model and experiment

(2014) Longqiu Li et al.   Soft Matter

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

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

Toward in vivo detection of hydrogen peroxide with ultrasound molecular imaging

(2013) Emilia S. Olson et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Integrated Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Target Drug/siRNA Co-Delivery

(2013) Xing Ma et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Catalytic Nanoshell Micromotors

(2013) Weijie Huang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Bubble-Propelled Microjets: Model and Experiment

(2013) Manoj Manjare et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Understanding the Efficiency of Autonomous Nano- and Microscale Motors

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

Organized Self-Assembly of Janus Micromotors with Hydrophobic Hemispheres

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

Bioinspired Helical Microswimmers Based on Vascular Plants

(2013) Wei Gao et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

(2013) Wei Wang et al.   Nano Today

Reynolds numbers influence the directionality of self-propelled microjet engines in the 10−4 regime

(2013) Guanjia Zhao et al.   Nanoscale

Concentric bimetallic microjets by electrodeposition

(2013) Guanjia Zhao et al.   RSC Advances

Autonomous Movement of Controllable Assembled Janus Capsule Motors

(2012) Yingjie Wu et al.   ACS Nano

Water-Driven Micromotors

(2012) Wei Gao et al.   ACS Nano

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

(2012) Larysa Baraban et al.   ACS Nano

Intelligent, self-powered, drug delivery systems

(2012) Debabrata Patra et al.   Nanoscale

Bubble Driven Quasioscillatory Translational Motion of Catalytic Micromotors

(2012) Manoj Manjare et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Multi-Fuel Driven Janus Micromotors

(2012) Wei Gao et al.   Small

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

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

Catalytically propelled micro-/nanomotors: how fast can they move?

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

Numerical modeling of bacteria propelled micromotors

(2011) L. Angelani et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Mesoporous silica nanoparticle based nano drug delivery systems: synthesis, controlled drug release and delivery, pharmacokinetics and biocompatibility

(2011) Qianjun He et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Autonomous Nanomotor Based on Copper–Platinum Segmented Nanobattery

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

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

(2011) Wei Gao 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

Superfast Motion of Catalytic Microjet Engines at Physiological Temperature

(2011) Samuel Sanchez 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

A cationic surfactant assisted selective etching strategy to hollow mesoporous silica spheres

(2011) Xiaoliang Fang et al.   Nanoscale

Dynamics of catalytic tubular microjet engines: Dependence on geometry and chemical environment

(2011) Jinxing Li et al.   Nanoscale

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

(2011) Wei Gao et al.   Small

Asymmetric Pt/Au coated catalytic micromotors fabricated by dynamic shadowing growth

(2010) John G. Gibbs et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal

(2010) Oleg D. Lavrentovich et al.   NATURE

Electromagnetic wobble micromotor for microrobots actuation

(2010) S. De Cristofaro et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

Autonomously motile catalytic nanomotors by bubble propulsion

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

Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers

(2009) Ambarish Ghosh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Powering Nanorobots

(2009) Thomas E. Mallouk et al.   SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Catalytic Microtubular Jet Engines Self-Propelled by Accumulated Gas Bubbles

(2009) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   Small

Carbon-Nanotube-Induced Acceleration of Catalytic Nanomotors

(2008) Rawiwan Laocharoensuk et al.   ACS Nano

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

(2008) Yongfeng Mei et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Chemical Locomotives Based on Polymer Supported Catalytic Nanoparticles

(2008) Aditya Agrawal et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C