ArticleScience advances2023
Light-stimulated micromotor swarms in an electric field with accurate spatial, temporal, and mode control.
Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Building with Light: Photoactive Colloids as the Next Generation Meta-Atoms.Nano letters · 2026Review
- SERS-Based Nano- and Microsystems Toward Biomedical Applications.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Review
- Recent Advances in Collective Behaviors of Micro/Nanomotor Swarms.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- Micro/Nanorobots for Combating Brain Disorders: Challenges, Advances, and Perspectives.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- A roadmap for next-generation nanomotors.Nature nanotechnology · 2025Review
- Technology Roadmap of Micro/Nanorobots.ACS nano · 2025Review
- Micro- and Nano-Bots for Infection Control.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Photothermal Cavitation-Driven Micromotor to Penetrate Cell Membrane.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Dual-Energy Integration in Photoresponsive Micro/Nanomotors: From Strategic Design to Biomedical Applications.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Review
- Swarm Autonomy: From Agent Functionalization to Machine Intelligence.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Nano-/Microrobots for Environmental Remediation in the Eyes of Nanoarchitectonics: Toward Engineering on a Single-Atomic Scale.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- Photo-controlled order-to-order host-guest self-assembly transfer for an afterglow effect with water resistance.Chemical science · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
4 authors.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Swarming, a phenomenon widely present in nature, is a hallmark of nonequilibrium living systems that harness external energy into collective locomotion. The creation and study of manmade swarms may provide insights into their biological counterparts and shed light to the rules of life. Here, we propose an innovative mechanism for rationally creating multimodal swarms with unprecedented spatial, temporal, and mode control. The research is realized in a system made of optoelectric semiconductor nanorods that can rapidly morph into three distinct modes, i.e., network formation, collectively enhanced rotation, and droplet-like clustering, pattern, and switch in-between under light stimulation in an electric field. Theoretical analysis and semiquantitative modeling well explain the observation by understanding the competition between two countering effects: the electrostatic assembly for orderliness and electrospinning-induced disassembly for disorderliness. This work could inspire the rational creation of new classes of reconfigurable swarms for both fundamental research and emerging applications.
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