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ReviewNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Emerging Roles of Microrobots for Enhancing the Sensitivity of Biosensors.

Xiaolong Lu, Jinhui Bao, Ying Wei, Shuting Zhang, Wenjuan Liu, Jie Wu

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Review in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Micro- and Nano-Bots for Infection Control.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  3. Research on Flexible Sensors for Wearable Devices: A Review.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  4. Metareview: a survey of active matter reviews.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Xiaolong LuState Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2049-8200
Jinhui BaoState Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.ORCID 0009-0005-5153-4787
Ying WeiState Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.
Shuting ZhangState Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.
Wenjuan LiuCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China.
Jie WuState Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 51975278
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To meet the increasing needs of point-of-care testing in clinical diagnosis and daily health monitoring, numerous cutting-edge techniques have emerged to upgrade current portable biosensors with higher sensitivity, smaller size, and better intelligence. In particular, due to the controlled locomotion characteristics in the micro/nano scale, microrobots can effectively enhance the sensitivity of biosensors by disrupting conventional passive diffusion into an active enrichment during the test. In addition, microrobots are ideal to create biosensors with functions of on-demand delivery, transportation, and multi-objective detections with the capability of actively controlled motion. In this review, five types of portable biosensors and their integration with microrobots are critically introduced. Microrobots can enhance the detection signal in fluorescence intensity and surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection via the active enrichment. The existence and quantity of detection substances also affect the motion state of microrobots for the locomotion-based detection. In addition, microrobots realize the indirect detection of the bio-molecules by functionalizing their surfaces in the electrochemical current and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy detections. We pay a special focus on the roles of microrobots with active locomotion to enhance the detection performance of portable sensors. At last, perspectives and future trends of microrobots in biosensing are also discussed.

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active controlbiosensorlocomotionmicrorobotsensitivity

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PMID37947746
PMCPMC10650336

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