Nanomotor Update

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Aggregating recent development in nanomotors, micromotors, microrobots, and active matter.

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Apr 25, 2023

Serving the nanomotor/micromachine/active matter community for three years and beyond! Thank you all for your support, and please continue to tag me when you see/make new discoveries! #MyTwitterAnniversary

nanomotorupdate's tweet image. Serving the nanomotor/micromachine/active matter community for three years and beyond! Thank you all for your support, and please continue to tag me when you see/make new discoveries!
#MyTwitterAnniversary

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 27

A fascinating review article linking active matter to animal behaviors. Where Physics Meets Behavior in Animal Groups journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstra…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 27

Stem cell secretome armed magneto-actuated micromotors as spatio-temporal manipulators for wound healing acceleration | Nature Communications | 2025-07-22 nature.com/articles/s4146…

nanomotorupdate's tweet card. Nature Communications - Deep wound healing faces challenges due to poor drug penetration and uncoordinated repair processes. Here, the authors show that stem cell secretome micromotors actively...

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 27

Engineering living worms and active crystals with colloids propelled by attractive time-delayed feedback pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/articl…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 27

Magnetically Driven Living Microrobot Swarms for Aquatic Micro- and Nanoplastic Cleanup | ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

nanomotorupdate's tweet card. Micro- and nanoplastic pollution is pervasive worldwide, infiltrating drinking water and food chains, accumulating in the human body, and posing serious threats to public health and ecosystems....

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 23

Generalized relationship between effective forces and active particle microstructure journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 22

Synthetic Data-Assisted Miniature Medical Robot Navigation via Ultrasound Imaging ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 22

Amino acid coating enables micromotor operation in physiological conditions | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 22

Micro/Nanomotors Moving at the Boundary: from Progress to Future Directions - Chen - Advanced Functional Materials - Wiley Online Library advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

nanomotorupdate's tweet card. Micro/nanomotors (MNMs) exhibit distinct motion behaviors near boundaries that are pervasive in real-world environments. This review categorizes different boundary types and examines their influence...

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 22

Binary mixtures of active Brownian particles with distinct nonzero activities | Soft Matter | 2025 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 22

Biohybrid Microrobot Enteric‐Coated Microcapsule for Oral Treatment of Colorectal Cancer - Kang - Advanced Materials - Wiley Online Library advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

nanomotorupdate's tweet card. This study presents an innovative oral drug delivery system using piezoelectric BaTiO₃ nanoparticles on Enterobacter aerogenes microrobots encapsulated in enteric microcapsules. These microrobots...

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 20

Curriculum Based Reinforcement Learning for 3D Control of Magnetic Microrobot Swarms ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

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Daniel Ahmed@DanielAhmedARSL · Jul 18

🔬 Visualizing micro-objects in the human body is a fundamental challenge — both in biomedical imaging and in the clinical translation of microrobotics. But we're now a step closer to solving it!!! #Microrobots #Ultrasound #MedTech #BiomedicalEngineering science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Pumera Research Group@PumeraGroup · Jul 18

🎨#Cover in @acsnano (IF 16) - for our truly global effort—“Technology Roadmap of Micro/Nanorobots" Article pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Cover pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/an…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 20

Dynamic Collective Assembly and Motility of Soft Magnetic Microrotators: Colloidal Gears, Caterpillars and Cartwheels ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 18

Microrobots for Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin Colony Eradication | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

nanomotorupdate's tweet card. Self-propelled nano- and micromachines have immense potential as autonomous seek-and-act devices in biomedical applications. In this study, we present microrobots constructed with inherently biocom...

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 18

Cascade-driven nanomotors promote diabetic wound healing by eradicating MRSA biofilm infection. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 16

Electrokinetic propulsion for electronically integrated microscopic robots | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 16

Programmable Acoustofluidic-Powered Miniaturized Robot for Two-Dimensional Swimming ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 16

Twist-Induced Networking and Fast Propagation of Defects in Three-Dimensional Active Nematics journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

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Nanomotor Update@nanomotorupdate · Jul 12

Smart micro/nanorobots for drug delivery in the brain sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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