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ReviewMicromachines2024

Application of Micro/Nanomotors in Environmental Remediation: A Review.

Tao He, Shishuo Liu, Yonghui Yang, Xuebo Chen

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Review in Micromachines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tao HeSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan 114051, China.ORCID 0009-0005-4340-7702
Shishuo LiuSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan 114051, China.
Yonghui YangSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan 114051, China.
Xuebo ChenSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan 114051, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6799-7667

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 71571091National Natural Science Foundation of China 71771112
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent of self-propelled micro/nanomotors represents a paradigm shift in the field of environmental remediation, offering a significant enhancement in the efficiency of conventional operations through the exploitation of the material phenomenon of active motion. Despite the considerable promise of micro/nanomotors for applications in environmental remediation, there has been a paucity of reviews that have focused on this area. This review identifies the current opportunities and challenges in utilizing micro/nanomotors to enhance contaminant degradation and removal, accelerate bacterial death, or enable dynamic environmental monitoring. It illustrates how mobile reactors or receptors can dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of environmental remediation processes. These studies exemplify the wide range of environmental applications of dynamic micro/nanomotors associated with their continuous motion, force, and function. Finally, the review discusses the challenges of transferring these exciting advances from the experimental scale to larger-scale field applications.

Indexed as

degradationdetectionenvironmental remediationself-propulsion

Identifiers

PMID39770197
PMCPMC11679765

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