Polymer platforms for micro- and nanomotor fabrication

Artificial, self-propelled micro- and nanomotors are small devices capable of autonomous movement, which are a powerful scientific innovation for solving various medical and environmental issues. Their design is frequently inspired by complex biological structures which are composed of biopolymers a...

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Published inNanoscale Vol. 1; no. 16; pp. 7332 - 7342
Main Authors Hermanová, So a, Pumera, Martin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Royal Society of Chemistry 01.01.2018
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Biopolymers
Innovations
Materials selection
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Summary:Artificial, self-propelled micro- and nanomotors are small devices capable of autonomous movement, which are a powerful scientific innovation for solving various medical and environmental issues. Their design is frequently inspired by complex biological structures which are composed of biopolymers and their composites. The choice of materials for nano- and micromachines is crucial for their shape, mechanism and efficiency of propulsion. In this review, we discuss the utilization and fabrication of polymers as soft components of micro- and nanomotors. Artificial, self-propelled micro- and nanomotors are small devices capable of autonomous movement, which are a powerful scientific innovation for solving various medical and environmental issues.
Bibliography:Martin Pumera is the Director of the Center for the Advanced Functional Nanorobots and a tenured faculty member at University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. He received his Ph.D. at Charles University, Czech Republic, in 2001. After two postdoctoral stays (in the United States, Spain), he became tenured group leader at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, in 2006. In 2010 Martin joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he worked as tenured associate professor for almost a decade. Prof. Pumera has broad interests in nanomaterials and microsystems, in the specific areas of electrochemistry and synthetic chemistry of 2D nanomaterials, nanotoxicity, micro and nanomachines, and 3D printing. Martin is "2017 Highly Cited Researcher" by Clarivate Analytics. He published over 500 papers which received more than 20 000 citations.
So a Hermanová received her Ph.D. degree in macromolecular chemistry from Brno University of Technology (BUT), Czech Republic, in 2005. So a continued at BUT as research scientist and in 2012 she moved to University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, to become an Assistant Professor in Department of Polymers. She has been a member of the Center for the Advanced Functional Nanorobots since 2017. Her research interests include biodegradable and biocompatible polymers, mechanism of their degradation, and immobilized enzymes as biocatalyst.
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ISSN:2040-3364
2040-3372
DOI:10.1039/c8nr00836a