A Review on Artificial Micro/Nanomotors for Cancer-Targeted Delivery, Diagnosis, and Therapy

• Published in: Nano-micro letters Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19
• Main Authors: Wang, Jiajia, Dong, Renfeng, Wu, Huiying, Cai, Yuepeng, Ren, Biye
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.01.2020; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Cancer; Diagnosis; Drug delivery; Engineering; Imaging; Medical diagnosis; Medical imaging; Micro/nanomotors; Micromotors; Nanobiomedicine; Nanoscale Science and Technology; Nanotechnology; Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Nanotechnology devices; Review; Therapy; Micro/nanomotors; Drug delivery; Diagnosis; Imaging; Cancer
• ISSN: 2311-6706; 2150-5551
• DOI: 10.1007/s40820-019-0350-5

Highlights Recent advances of micro/nanomotors in the field of cancer-targeted delivery, diagnosis, and imaging-guided therapy are summarized. Challenges and outlook for the future development of micro/nanomotors toward clinical applications are discussed. Micro/nanomotors have been extensively explored for efficient cancer diagnosis and therapy, as evidenced by significant breakthroughs in the design of micro/nanomotors-based intelligent and comprehensive biomedical platforms. Here, we demonstrate the recent advances of micro/nanomotors in the field of cancer-targeted delivery, diagnosis, and imaging-guided therapy, as well as the challenges and problems faced by micro/nanomotors in clinical applications. The outlook for the future development of micro/nanomotors toward clinical applications is also discussed. We hope to highlight these new advances in micro/nanomotors in the field of cancer diagnosis and therapy, with the ultimate goal of stimulating the successful exploration of intelligent micro/nanomotors for future clinical applications.