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Pick up and dispose of pollutants from water via temperature-responsive micellar copolymers on magnetite nanorobots
(Springer Nature, 2022-03-01)Pesticide and heavy metal pollution in water can cause environmental and public health issues. Here, the authors report thermoresponsive magnetic nanorobots that can efficiently pick up and dispose of pollutants from water ... -
Trapping and detecting nanoplastics by MXene-derived oxide microrobots
(Springer Nature, 2022-06-22)Nanoplastic water pollution represents an increasing concern. Here, photogravitactic MXene-derived microrobots are programmed to trap nanoplastics in the layered structure and magnetically transfer them to low-cost electrodes ... -
Versatile Design of Functional Organic-Inorganic 3D-Printed (Opto)Electronic Interfaces with Custom Catalytic Activity
(Wiley-VCH, 2021-10-01)The ability to combine organic and inorganic components in a single material represents a great step toward the development of advanced (opto)electronic systems. Nowadays, 3D-printing technology has generated a revolution ... -
Efficient Protein Transfection by Swarms of Chemically Powered Plasmonic Virus-Sized Nanorobots
(American Chemical Society, 2021-08-24)Transfection is based on nonviral delivery of nucleic acids or proteins into cells. Viral approaches are being used; nevertheless, their translational capacity is nowadays decreasing due to persistent fear of their safety, ... -
Swarming Aqua Sperm Micromotors for Active Bacterial Biofilms Removal in Confined Spaces
(Wiley-VCH, 2021-10-01)Microscale self-propelled robots show great promise in the biomedical field and are the focus of many researchers. These tiny devices, which move and navigate by themselves, are typically based on inorganic microstructures ... -
Layered transition metal selenophosphites for visible light photoelectrochemical production of hydrogen
(Elsevier, 2021-08-01)The growing consumption of global energy has posed serious challenges to environmental protection and energy supplies. A promising solution is via introducing clean and sustainable energy sources, including photo-electrochemical ... -
3D Printing Temperature Tailors Electrical and Electrochemical Properties through Changing Inner Distribution of Graphite/Polymer
(Wiley-VCH, 2021-06-01)The rise of 3D printing technology, with fused deposition modeling as one of the simplest and most widely used techniques, has empowered an increasing interest for composite filaments, providing additional functionality ... -
Six-Degree-of-Freedom Steerable Visible-Light-Driven Microsubmarines Using Water as a Fuel: Application for Explosives Decontamination
(WILEY-VCH, 2021-06-01)Micro/nanomotors are capable of a wide variety of tasks related, i.e., to biomedical or environmental applications. Light-driven semiconductor-based micromotors are especially appealing, as they can split surrounding water ... -
Magnetically Driven Micro and Nanorobots
(American Chemical Society, 2021-04-28)Manipulation and navigation of micro and nanoswimmers in different fluid environments can be achieved by chemicals, external fields, or even motile cells. Many researchers have selected magnetic fields as the active external ... -
Organic photoelectrode engineering: accelerating photocurrent generation via donor-acceptor interactions and surface-assisted synthetic approach
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021-03-21)Conventional photoelectrocatalysts composed of precious metals and inorganic elements have limited synthetic design, hence, hampered modularity of their photophysical properties. Here, we demonstrate a scalable, one-pot ... -
3D-printed nanocarbon sensors for the detection of chlorophenols and nitrophenols: Towards environmental applications of additive manufacturing
(Elsevier, 2021-04-01)3D printing is a manufacturing technique used to prototype devices with customized shapes composed of different materials, including carbon composites. Toxic phenolic compounds are a major environmental hazard. Herein, we ... -
Electrocatalytic activity of layered MAX phases for the hydrogen evolution reaction
(Elsevier, 2021-04-01)The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is important for the advancement of next-generation electrochemical energy devices. The search for an alternative inexpensive catalyst for energy conversion to replace expensive and ... -
MXene-functionalised 3D-printed electrodes for electrochemical capacitors
(Elsevier, 2021-03-01)3D printing is a manufacturing technique that can be used to produce electrochemical capacitors with customised shapes and minimal material waste. However, the range of carbon-additive filaments currently commercially ... -
Dip-coating of MXene and transition metal dichalcogenides on 3D-printed nanocarbon electrodes for the hydrogen evolution reaction
(Elsevier, 2021-01-01)3D-printing technology is widely accepted as a scalable and advanced manufacturing procedure for the fabrication of electrodes for electrochemical applications. 3D-printed carbon-based electrodes can be used for electrochemical ... -
Thin TiO2Coatings by ALD Enhance the Cell Growth on TiO2Nanotubular and Flat Substrates
(American Chemical Society, 2020-09-21)The present work exploits Ti sheets and TiO2 nanotube (TNT) layers and their surface modifications for the proliferation of different cells. Ti sheets with a native oxide layer, Ti sheets with a crystalline thermal oxide ... -
3D-printed electrodes for the detection of mycotoxins in food
(Elsevier, 2020-06-01)Additive manufacturing, also termed 3D printing, enables economical, dynamic and rapid fabrication of customisable three-dimensional (3D) devices catering for specialised functions. Herein, we report the fabrication of ... -
Layered black phosphorus as a reducing agent - decoration with group 10 elements
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-10-05)Black phosphorus is prone to surface oxidation under ambient conditions. This attribute is often seen as a negative property of this interesting material. However, its proneness to oxidation - thus the reductive properties ... -
Chemical Microrobots as Self-Propelled Microbrushes against Dental Biofilm
(Cell Press, 2020-09-23)Mouths offer the perfect environments for microbial cell formation, promoting the growth of biofilms, for example, on teeth. Dental biofilm exhibits strong resistance to antibiotics and is a cause of many dental diseases. ... -
Cell segmentation methods for label-free contrast microscopy: review and comprehensive comparison
(BMC, 2019-07-28)Because of its non-destructive nature, label-free imaging is an important strategy for studying biological processes. However, routine microscopic techniques like phase contrast or DIC suffer from shadow-cast artifacts ... -
Metal-plated 3D-printed electrode for electrochemical detection of carbohydrates
(Elsevier, 2020-11-01)The decentralized fabrication of sensors using 3D-printing technology and low power requirements of electrochemical detection promise to revolutionize point-of-care sensing. One of the obstacles is that the 3D-printed ...
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