ReviewMicromachines2020
Recent Advances in Microswimmers for Biomedical Applications.
Review in Micromachines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Magnetic DNA Origami Nanorotors.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Soft Colloidal Robots: Magnetically Guided Liquid Crystal Torons for Targeted Micro-Cargo Delivery.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Translational Application of Biomedical Microrobots in Female Reproductive System.ACS nano medicine · 2026Review
- Organ-on-a-Chip Models of the Female Reproductive System: Current Progress and Future Perspectives.Micromachines · 2025Review
- Modal analysis and optimization of swimming active filaments.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Article
- Metareview: a survey of active matter reviews.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2025Review
- Dual-Wavelength Volumetric Microlithography for Rapid Production of 4D Microstructures.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2024Article
- Recent Advances in Microrobots Powered by Multi-Physics Field for Biomedical and Environmental Applications.Micromachines · 2024Review
- Size and Illumination Matters: Local Magnetic Actuation and Fluorescence Imaging for Microrobotics.Journal of the Indian Institute of Science · 2024Review
- Self-Propulsion of Two Contacting Bubbles Due to the Radiation Interaction Force.Micromachines · 2023Article
- On-Chip Optical Trapping with High NA Metasurfaces.ACS photonics · 2023Article
- Two-photon microscopy for microrobotics: Visualization of micro-agents below fixed tissue.PloS one · 2023Article
- Fabrication of Bilayer Magnetically Actuated L-Shaped Microrobot Based on Chitosan via Photolithography.Polymers · 2022Article
- Advances in Biodegradable Soft Robots.Polymers · 2022Review
- 3D-printed microrobots from design to translation.Nature communications · 2022Review
- Phototactic microswimmers in pulsatile flow: Toward a novel harvesting method.Biomicrofluidics · 2022Article
- Accumulation of Particles and Formation of a Dissipative Structure in a Nonequilibrium Bath.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Smart Bioinks for the Printing of Human Tissue Models.Biomolecules · 2022Review
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Abstract
Microswimmers are a rapidly developing research area attracting enormous attention because of their many potential applications with high societal value. A particularly promising target for cleverly engineered microswimmers is the field of biomedical applications, where many interesting examples have already been reported for e.g., cargo transport and drug delivery, artificial insemination, sensing, indirect manipulation of cells and other microscopic objects, imaging, and microsurgery. Pioneered only two decades ago, research studies on the use of microswimmers in biomedical applications are currently progressing at an incredibly fast pace. Given the recent nature of the research, there are currently no clinically approved microswimmer uses, and it is likely that several years will yet pass before any clinical uses can become a reality. Nevertheless, current research is laying the foundation for clinical translation, as more and more studies explore various strategies for developing biocompatible and biodegradable microswimmers fueled by in vivo
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