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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Theoretical framework for two-microswimmer hydrodynamic interactions
New Journal of Physics, 2021 Hydrodynamic interactions are crucial for determining the cooperative behavior of microswimmers at low Reynolds numbers. Here we provide a comprehensive analysis of the scaling laws and the strength of the interactions in the case of a pair of three ...
Sebastian Ziegler +4 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won +5 more
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A Path toward Inherently Asymmetric Micromotors
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Since the highly cited paper by Purcell postulating the “Scallop theorem” almost 50 years ago, asymmetry is an unavoidable part of micromotors. It is frequently induced by self‐shadowing or self‐masking, resulting in so‐called Janus colloids.
Purnesh Chattopadhyay +3 more
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Thermometric Based‐Microswimmers with Chemical and Optical Engines
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Temperature sensing at small scales is typically performed using passive luminescent particles. Here, an alternative approach is demonstrated by integrating upconversion thermometry into self‐propelled microswimmers powered by chemical fuels or light. This strategy offers a step toward dynamic thermal sensing at the microscale, relevant to both lab‐on ...
João M. Gonçalves, Katherine Villa
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Microfluidic Mixing with the Dynamic Control of Magnetic Actuation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Schematic illustration and flow field visualization of magnetically actuated L‐shaped microrobots displaying cooperative vortex generation for enhanced microscale mixing. The left side shows the electromagnetic actuation setup, which enables programmable control of rotational direction and frequency.
Prashant Kishor Sharma +2 more
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Micro/nanorobots for detecting and eliminating biological and chemical warfare agents
BMEMat, EarlyView.Fuel‐powered and field‐driven micro/nanorobots provide a cutting‐edge platform to safeguard national security and defense. This review reports the latest research progress in micro/nanorobots in sensing and detoxifying biological and chemical warfare agents.
Song Li +4 more
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New Journal of Physics, 2007 We investigate the self-locomotion of an elongated microswimmer by virtue of the unidirectional tangential surface treadmilling. We show that the propulsion could be almost frictionless, as the microswimmer is propelled forward with the speed of the backward surface motion, i.e. it moves throughout an almost quiescent fluid.
Leshansky, Alexander M. +3 more
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Topographical pathways guide chemical microswimmers [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 AbstractAchieving control over the directionality of active colloids is essential for their use in practical applications such as cargo carriers in microfluidic devices. So far, guidance of spherical Janus colloids was mainly realized using specially engineered magnetic multilayer coatings combined with external magnetic fields.
Juliane Simmchen +5 more
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Intratumoral bacteria engineered for tumor therapy
Interdisciplinary Medicine, EarlyView.This article comprehensively reviews engineered intratumoral bacteria used in tumor therapy. The concept development, characteristics, and engineering methods of intratumoral bacteria are summarized. The mechanisms and the translational significance by which engineered intratumoral bacteria interfere with tumor progression are discussed and highlighted.
Huajie Zhang +7 more
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