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ArticleNature communications2023

Autonomous nanorobots with powerful thrust under dry solid-contact conditions by photothermal shock.

Zhaoqi Gu, Runlin Zhu, Tianci Shen, Lin Dou, Hongjiang Liu, Yifei Liu, Xu Liu, Jia Liu, Songlin Zhuang, Fuxing Gu

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Ice-phase optothermal tweezers.Nature communications · 2026
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  4. Terrestrial locomotion of microscopic robots enabled by 3D nanomembranes with nonreciprocal shape morphing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Precise and Omnidirectional Opto-Thermo-Elastic Actuation in Van Der Waals Contacting Systems.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  7. Plasmonic-nanowire near-field beam analyzer.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Zhaoqi Gu *Laboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093, Shanghai, China.
Runlin Zhu *Laboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2625-1441
Tianci Shen *Laboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093, Shanghai, China.
Lin DouLaboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093, Shanghai, China.
Hongjiang LiuLaboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093, Shanghai, China.
Yifei LiuLaboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093, Shanghai, China.
Xu LiuState Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, 300130, Tianjin, China.
Jia LiuDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA.
Songlin ZhuangLaboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093, Shanghai, China.
Fuxing GuLaboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093, Shanghai, China. gufuxing@usst.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5442-8043

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanorobotic motion on solid substrates is greatly hindered by strong nanofriction, and powerful nanomotors‒the core components for nanorobotic motion‒are still lacking. Optical actuation addresses power and motion control issues simultaneously, while conventional technologies with small thrust usually apply to fluid environments. Here, we demonstrate micronewton-thrust nanomotors that enable the autonomous nanorobots working like conventional robots with precise motion control on dry surfaces by a photothermal-shock technique. We build a pulsed laser-based actuation and trapping platform, termed photothermal-shock tweezers, for general motion control of metallic nanomaterials and assembled nanorobots with nanoscale precision. The thrust-to-weight ratios up to 10

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