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ArticleiScience2019

Phototactic Flocking of Photochemical Micromotors.

Fangzhi Mou, Jianhua Zhang, Zhen Wu, Sinan Du, Zexin Zhang, Leilei Xu, Jianguo Guan

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Article in iScience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Interactions Between Active Matters and Endogenous Fields.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  11. Collective Dynamics of Urease-Based Nanomotors in a Chemical Gradient.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  12. Amino acid coating enables micromotor operation in physiological conditions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  17. Microrobotic Swarms for Cancer Therapy.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025
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  18. Swarm Autonomy: From Agent Functionalization to Machine Intelligence.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  19. Harnessing Disparities in Magnetic Microswarms: From Construction to Collaborative Tasks.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Fangzhi MouState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China.
Jianhua ZhangState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China.
Zhen WuState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China.
Sinan DuState and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Zexin ZhangState and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. Electronic address: zhangzx@suda.edu.cn.
Leilei XuState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China.
Jianguo GuanState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China. Electronic address: guanjg@whut.edu.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inspired by astonishing collective motions and tactic behaviors in nature, here we show phototactic flocking of synthetic photochemical micromotors. When enriched with hydroxyl groups, TiO

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PMID31421596
PMCPMC6704395

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