ReviewNature materials2023
Colloidal robotics.
Review in Nature materials, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Optoelectronic Nanofluidic Neural Networks for Ionic Computing.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Collective climbing of colloidal swarms on the vertical wall.Science advances · 2026Article
- Toward autonomous robotic-assisted and microrobotic surgery.Science advances · 2026Review
- Particle-Nanofiber Superstructures.Accounts of materials research · 2026Article
- Rotational 3D printing of active-passive filaments and lattices with programmable shape morphing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Artificial chemotaxis in micro/nanomotors.Nature communications · 2026Review
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- A Microfluidic Digital Shutter of Liquid-Liquid Interface for Fabrication of Multifaceted Hydrogel Microfiber Structure.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Modeling feasible locomotion of nanobots for cancer detection and treatment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Anomalous Dynamics of Superparamagnetic Colloidal Microrobots with Tailored Statistics.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Visualizing energy transfer between redox-active colloids.Science advances · 2025Article
- Permanent magnetic droplet-derived microrobots.Science advances · 2025Article
- Smart Dust for Chemical Mapping.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Metareview: a survey of active matter reviews.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2025Review
- Swarm Autonomy: From Agent Functionalization to Machine Intelligence.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Light patterning semiconductor nanoparticles by modulating surface charges.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Choreographing Oscillatory Hydrodynamics with DNA-Coated Gold Nanoparticles.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
16 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Robots have components that work together to accomplish a task. Colloids are particles, usually less than 100 µm, that are small enough that they do not settle out of solution. Colloidal robots are particles capable of functions such as sensing, computation, communication, locomotion and energy management that are all controlled by the particle itself. Their design and synthesis is an emerging area of interdisciplinary research drawing from materials science, colloid science, self-assembly, robophysics and control theory. Many colloidal robot systems approach synthetic versions of biological cells in autonomy and may find ultimate utility in bringing these specialized functions to previously inaccessible locations. This Perspective examines the emerging literature and highlights certain design principles and strategies towards the realization of colloidal robots.
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