Micro/Nanorobots for Medical Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1096
Special Issue Editor
Interests: in vivo computing; molecular communications; computational nanobiosensing; informational nanomedicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The requirements of complex and precise medical operations have dramatically accelerated the emergence and development of micro/nanorobots in the last decade. Micro/nanorobots have potential to work individually or in swarms in a wide variety of biomedical applications, such as the targeting and early diagnosis of cancer, drug delivery, tissue engineering, gene delivery systems, cardiology, the analysis of body vitals, the monitoring of diabetes, minimally invasive brain surgery, and imaging and detection capabilities.
The emergence of micro/nanorobotic platforms opens the horizon to improve precision medicine and the quality of human life. However, constrained by the small size of nanorobots, it is a great challenge to integrate various kinds of desired functions (e.g., biosensing, propulsion, drug-carrying) in a micro/nanoscale agent. The complexity, instability, and inhomogeneity of the human physiological tissue environment pose significant challenges to the control, actuation, navigation, and payload retention of micro/nanorobots. Furthermore, the modular robot design, communication, planning, and cooperative control of swarm micro/nanorobots also face many technical challenges because of their unique features compared to macroscale robots. This Special Issue aims to gather cutting-edge research on micro/nanorobots for biomedical applications and focus on their structural or functional design, physical fabrication, clinical operation, sensing and communication abilities, actuation, and control strategies for single or swarm micro/nanorobots.
Prof. Dr. Yifan Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- micro/nanorobots
- disease diagnosis
- drug delivery
- structural design
- path planning
- sensing and communication
- swarm robotics
- cooperative control
