Magnetically Actuated Cell-Robot System: Precise Control, Manipulation, and Multimode Conversion.
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DOI: 10.1002/smll.202105414
Abstract: Border-nearing microrobots with self-propelling and navigating capabilities have promising applications in micromanipulation and bioengineering, because they can stimulate the surrounding fluid flow for object transportation. However, ensuring the biosafety of microrobots is a concurrent challenge… read more here.
Keywords: actuated cell; manipulation; cell robots; magnetically actuated ... See more keywords
Design and optimization of a novel magnetically-actuated micromanipulator
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DOI: 10.1007/s00542-016-3177-8
Abstract: The ability of external magnetic fields to precisely control micromanipulators has received a great deal of attention from researchers in recent years due to its off-board power source. Researchers have proposed a number of designs… read more here.
Keywords: magnetically actuated; micromanipulator; design optimization; force ... See more keywords
Design and Characterization of Magnetically Actuated Helical Swimmers at Submillimeter-scale
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DOI: 10.1016/s1672-6529(16)60375-x
Abstract: Bacteria with helical flagella show an ideal mechanism to swim at low Reynolds number. For application of artificial microswimmers, it is desirable to identify effects of structural and geometrical parameters on the swimming performance. In… read more here.
Keywords: actuated helical; characterization magnetically; magnetically actuated; submillimeter scale ... See more keywords
Magnetically Actuated Droplet Manipulation and Its Potential Biomedical Applications.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b09017
Abstract: Droplet manipulation has found broad applications in various engineering and biomedical fields, such as biochemistry, microfluidic systems, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. Many methods have been developed to enhance the ability for manipulating droplets, among… read more here.
Keywords: potential biomedical; droplet; droplet manipulation; magnetically actuated ... See more keywords
Magnetically Actuated Heterogeneous Microcapsule-robot for Construction of 3D Bioartificial Architectures.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b05517
Abstract: Core-shell microcapsules as one type of the most attracting carriers and reactors have been widely applied in the fields of drug screening and tissue engineering owing to their excellent biocompatibility and semi-permeability. Yet, the spatial… read more here.
Keywords: core shell; magnetically actuated; actuated heterogeneous; microcapsule robot ... See more keywords
Magnetically Actuated Biohybrid Microswimmers for Precise Photothermal Muscle Contraction.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c00833
Abstract: Various strategies have been designed for myotube contraction and skeletal muscle stimulation in recent years, aiming in the field of skeletal muscle tissue engineering and bionics. However, most of the current approaches lack controllability and… read more here.
Keywords: biohybrid microswimmers; magnetically actuated; contraction; muscle ... See more keywords
Magnetically actuated functional gradient nanocomposites for strong and ultra-durable biomimetic interfaces/surfaces
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DOI: 10.1039/c7mh00223h
Abstract: Magnetically-actuated functional gradient nanocomposites can be locally modulated to generate unprecedented mechanical gradients applied to various interfaces and surfaces following the design principles of natural biological materials. Several thus-far-inaccessible biomimics including a strong and ultra-durable… read more here.
Keywords: interfaces surfaces; strong ultra; actuated functional; magnetically actuated ... See more keywords
Spatial and temporal tunability of magnetically-actuated gradient nanocomposites.
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DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00124g
Abstract: Natural biological materials usually adopt functional gradient designs within interfacial regions to fulfil unusual mechanically-challenging demands. Manufacturing analogous gradients to alleviate premature failures for synthetic interfaces has remained challenging until recently, where magnetically-actuated gradient nanocomposites… read more here.
Keywords: magnetically actuated; gradient nanocomposites; spatial temporal; actuated gradient ... See more keywords
A magnetically actuated, optically sensed tensile testing method for mechanical characterization of soft biological tissues
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DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.29.501994
Abstract: Mechanical properties of soft biological tissues play a key role in their normal physiology, contributing to their formation during development, maintenance and repair during adult homeostasis, and driving diseases such as cancer. Mechanics has been… read more here.
Keywords: magnetically actuated; biological tissues; mechanical properties; soft biological ... See more keywords
Magnetically Actuated Capsule Robots: A Review
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DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3197632
Abstract: Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera inside a capsule endoscope to capture pictures of the patient’s gastrointestinal tract for diagnosis. Gastrointestinal examination has been revolutionized by capsule endoscope owing to… read more here.
Keywords: capsule endoscope; magnetically actuated; actuated capsule; robots review ... See more keywords
Adaptive Dynamic Control for Magnetically Actuated Medical Robots
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DOI: 10.1109/lra.2019.2928761
Abstract: In the present letter, we discuss a novel dynamic control approach for magnetically actuated robots, by proposing an adaptive control technique, robust toward parametric uncertainties and unknown bounded disturbances. The former generally arise due to… read more here.
Keywords: dynamic control; adaptive dynamic; control; control magnetically ... See more keywords