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4D Printing: Enabling Technology for Microrobotics Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, 2021
This review demonstrates that 4D printing constitutes a key technology to enable significant advances in microrobotics. Unlike traditional microfabrication techniques, 4D printing provides higher versatility, more sophisticated designs, and a wide range ...
Kanty Rabenorosoa   +2 more
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Haptic Feedback for Microrobotics Applications: A Review [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016
Microrobotics systems are showing promising results in several applications and scenarios, such as targeted drug delivery and screening, biopsy, environmental control, surgery, and assembly.
Domenico Prattichizzo   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Review of Bubble Applications in Microrobotics: Propulsion, Manipulation, and Assembly

open access: yesMicromachines, 2022
In recent years, microbubbles have been widely used in the field of microrobots due to their unique properties. Microbubbles can be easily produced and used as power sources or tools of microrobots, and the bubbles can even serve as microrobots ...
Yuting Zhou, Liguo Dai, Niandong Jiao
doaj   +2 more sources

Micromotor Manipulation Using Ultrasonic Active Traveling Waves

open access: yesMicromachines, 2021
The ability to manipulate therapeutic agents in fluids is of interest to improve the efficiency of targeted drug delivery. Ultrasonic manipulation has great potential in the field of therapeutic applications as it can trap and manipulate micro-scale ...
Hiep Xuan Cao   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modular Capsules with Assembly and Separation Mechanism: Proof of Concept

open access: yesActuators, 2021
As wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) technology has advanced, various studies were published on WCEs with functional modules for the diagnosis and treatment of problems in the digestive system.
Zhenyu Li   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sonazoid-Conjugated Natural Killer Cells for Tumor Therapy and Real-Time Visualization by Ultrasound Imaging

open access: yesPharmaceutics, 2021
Various cell therapy strategies, including chimeric antigen receptor-expressing T or natural killer (NK) cells and cell-mediated drug delivery, have been developed for tumor eradication.
Hyeong-Woo Song   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wearable Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Biosensor with Highly Sensitive and Direct Detection of Cortisol in Human Sweat

open access: yesBiosensors, 2023
Wearable biosensors have the potential for developing individualized health evaluation and detection systems owing to their ability to provide continuous real-time physiological data. Among various wearable biosensors, localized surface plasmon resonance
Minghui Nan   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Locomotion and disaggregation control of paramagnetic nanoclusters using wireless electromagnetic fields for enhanced targeted drug delivery

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Magnetic nanorobots (MNRs) based on paramagnetic nanoparticles/nanoclusters for the targeted therapeutics of anticancer drugs have been highlighted for their efficiency potential.
Kim Tien Nguyen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Battery-Free Tattooing Mechanism-Based Functional Active Capsule Endoscopy

open access: yesMicromachines, 2022
This paper presents a novel tattooing capsule endoscope (TCE) for delivering a certain amount of ink to the submucosal layer of digestive tract organs. A dual-function permanent magnet is used for locomotion and injection activation.
Manh-Cuong Hoang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Functional enhancement of exosomes derived from NK cells by IL-15 and IL-21 synergy against hepatocellular carcinoma cells: The cytotoxicity and apoptosis in vitro study

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Exosomes are released by various cells, including natural killer (NK) cells and transport signaling molecules for the intercellular communication. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), also known as primary liver cancer, is often inoperable and difficult to ...
In-Young Kim   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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