Microfluidics meets micro/nanorobotics
Microrobots hold potential as drug delivery carriers, but face challenges in clinical applications due to low drug loading efficiencies and limited degradability of fabrication materials.
On the other hand, while artificial functional materials excel in encapsulation, they lack motility and targeted drug delivery capabilities. The intersection of these fields marks a new era in biomedical applications. In the ChemInFlow group, we aim to address this challenge by integrating innovative functional materials that will lead to a new generation of highly integrated magnetic robotic platforms.
Keywords
Microrobots, Nanorobots, New microrobotic platforms, Smart materials, Miniaturised drug carriers.
Selected publications:
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- Adv. Intell. Syst., 4, 2200192 (2022).
- Small, 18, 2203821 (2022).
- Adv. Funct. Mater., 32, 2107421 (2022).
- Curr. Robot. Rep., 2, 427–440 (2021).
- Adv. Mater., 33, 2102049 (2021).
- Adv. Sci., 8, 2101290 (2021).
- Adv. Healthc. Mater., 9, 2001031 (2020).
- Adv. Mat., 32, 2005652 (2020).
- Chem. Rev., 120, 11175–11193 (2020).
- Adv. Healthc. Mater., 9, 2001031 (2020).
- Adv. Mater., 31, 1901592 (2019).