Multifunctional micro/nanomotors as an emerging platform for smart healthcare applications
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- Title
- Multifunctional micro/nanomotors as an emerging platform for smart healthcare applications
- Authors
- Choi, Hyunsik; Yi, Jeeyoon; Cho, Seong Hwi; Hahn, Sei Kwang
- Date Issued
- 2021-12
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Abstract
- Self-propelling micro- and nano-motors (MNMs) are emerging as a multifunctional platform for smart healthcare applications such as biosensing, bioimaging, and targeted drug delivery with high tissue penetration, stirring effect, and rapid drug transport. MNMs can be propelled and/or guided by chemical substances or external stimuli including ultrasound, magnetic field, and light. In addition, enzymatically powered MNMs and biohybrid micromotors have been developed using the biological components in the body. In this review, we describe emerging MNMs focusing on their smart propulsion systems, and diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Finally, we highlight several MNMs for in vivo applications and discuss the future perspectives of MNMs on their current limitations and possibilities toward further clinical applications.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/113144
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.121201
- ISSN
- 0142-9612
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- BIOMATERIALS, vol. 279, 2021-12
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