ReviewMicromachines2017
Controllable Swarming and Assembly of Micro/Nanomachines.
Review in Micromachines, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Recent Advances in Collective Behaviors of Micro/Nanomotor Swarms.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- Metareview: a survey of active matter reviews.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2025Review
- Out-of-equilibrium interactions and collective locomotion of colloidal spheres with squirming of nematoelastic multipoles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Recent Process in Microrobots: From Propulsion to Swarming for Biomedical Applications.Micromachines · 2022Review
- Microscopic Swarms: From Active Matter Physics to Biomedical and Environmental Applications.Micromachines · 2022Review
- The Role of Soft Robotic Micromachines in the Future of Medical Devices and Personalized Medicine.Micromachines · 2021Review
- Reconfigurable Disk-like Microswarm under a Sawtooth Magnetic Field.Micromachines · 2021Article
- Optocapillarity-driven assembly and reconfiguration of liquid crystal polymer actuators.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Stability of a Dumbbell Micro-Swimmer.Micromachines · 2019Article
- Selected Papers from the 2017 International Conference on Micro/Nanomachines.Micromachines · 2018Article
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Abstract
Motion is a common phenomenon in biological processes. Major advances have been made in designing various self-propelled micromachines that harvest different types of energies into mechanical movement to achieve biomedicine and biological applications. Inspired by fascinating self-organization motion of natural creatures, the swarming or assembly of synthetic micro/nanomachines (often referred to micro/nanoswimmers, micro/nanorobots, micro/nanomachines, or micro/nanomotors), are able to mimic these amazing natural systems to help humanity accomplishing complex biological tasks. This review described the fuel induced methods (enzyme, hydrogen peroxide, hydrazine, et al.) and fuel-free induced approaches (electric, ultrasound, light, and magnetic) that led to control the assembly and swarming of synthetic micro/nanomachines. Such behavior is of fundamental importance in improving our understanding of self-assembly processes that are occurring on molecular to macroscopic length scales.
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