ReviewFrontiers in robotics and AI2018
Bacterial Biohybrid Microswimmers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Chlamylipo, aBiophysics and physicobiology · 2026Article
- Bacterial Minicell-Based Biohybrid Sub-micron Swimmers for Targeted Cargo Delivery.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Micro/nanorobots in antimicrobial therapy: Addressing challenges of antibiotic resistance.Materials today. Bio · 2025Review
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- Nano/Micromotors for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy: Innovative Designs to Improve Biocompatibility.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
- Azide click chemistry on magnetotactic bacteria: A versatile technique to attach a cargo.Materials today. Bio · 2023Article
- Steering self-organisation through confinement.Soft matter · 2023Review
- 3D-printed microrobots from design to translation.Nature communications · 2022Review
- Nanoswimmers Based on Capped Janus Nanospheres.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Biohybrid Micro- and Nanorobots for Intelligent Drug Delivery.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Review
- Multistimuli-responsive microrobots: A comprehensive review.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Review
- Recent Advances in Microswimmers for Biomedical Applications.Micromachines · 2020Review
- Nanoerythrosome-functionalized biohybrid microswimmers.APL bioengineering · 2020Article
- YSMR: a video tracking and analysis program for bacterial motility.BMC bioinformatics · 2020Article
- Microfluidic techniques for separation of bacterial cells via taxis.Microbial cell (Graz, Austria) · 2020Review
- Genetically Engineered Bacterial Biohybrid Microswimmers for Sensing Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Nano-and Micromotors Designed for Cancer Therapy.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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Abstract
Over millions of years, Nature has optimized the motion of biological systems at the micro and nanoscales. Motor proteins to motile single cells have managed to overcome Brownian motion and solve several challenges that arise at low Reynolds numbers. In this review, we will briefly describe naturally motile systems and their strategies to move, starting with a general introduction that surveys a broad range of developments, followed by an overview about the physical laws and parameters that govern and limit motion at the microscale. We characterize some of the classes of biological microswimmers that have arisen in the course of evolution, as well as the hybrid structures that have been constructed based on these, ranging from Montemagno's ATPase motor to the SpermBot. Thereafter, we maintain our focus on bacteria and their biohybrids. We introduce the inherent properties of bacteria as a natural microswimmer and explain the different principles bacteria use for their motion. We then elucidate different strategies that have been employed for the coupling of a variety of artificial microobjects to the bacterial surface, and evaluate the different effects the coupled objects have on the motion of the "biohybrid." Concluding, we give a short overview and a realistic evaluation of proposed applications in the field.
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