Keyword Plus: Microrobots

Microrobots for Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin Colony Eradication

• Anna Jancik-Prochazkova, Hana Michalkova, Kristyna Cihalova, Zbynek Heger, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2025, 17(27), 39340-39348

High-throughput Photoactive Magnetic Microrobots for Food Quality Control

• Roberto Maria-Hormigos, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Jeonghyo Kim, Martin Pumera*
• Small 2025, 9(7), 2401952

Reconfigurable self-assembly of photocatalytic magnetic microrobots for water purification

• Mario Urso, Martina Ussia, Xia Peng, Cagatay M. Oral, Martin Pumera*
• Nature Communications 2023, 14(), 6969

Light-powered swarming phoretic antimony chalcogenide-based microrobots with “on-the-fly” photodegradation abilities

• Anna Jancik-Prochazkova, Martin Pumera*
• Nanoscale 2023, 15(12), 5726-5734

Light-Powered Self-Adaptive Mesostructured Microrobots for Simultaneous Microplastics Trapping and Fragmentation via in situ Surface Morphing

• Sanjay Gopal Ullattil, Martin Pumera*
• Small 2023, 19(38), 2301467

In vivo applications of micro/nanorobots

• Cagatay M. Oral, Martin Pumera*
• Nanoscale 2023, 15(19), 8491-8507

Photocatalysis dramatically influences motion of magnetic microrobots: Application to removal of microplastics and dyes

• Paula Mayorga-Burrezo, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Martin Pumera*
• Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2023, 643(), 447-454

Precisely Navigated Biobot Swarms of Bacteria Magnetospirillum magneticum for Water Decontamination

• Su-Jin Song, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Jan Vyskočil, Markéta Častorálová, Tomáš Ruml,and Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2023, 15(5), 7023-7029

Multi-Wavelength Light-Responsive Metal–Phenolic Network-Based Microrobots for Reactive Species Scavenging

• Ziyi Guo, Tianyi Liu, Wanli Gao, Christian Iffelsberger, Biao Kong, and Martin Pumera*
• Advanced Materials 2023, (), 2210994

Hydrogen Bonding Nanoarchitectonics of Organic Pigment-Based Janus Microrobots with Entering Capability into Cancer Cells

• Anna Jancik-Prochazkova, Hana Michalkova, Zbynek Heger, and Martin Pumera*
• ACS Nano 2023, 17(1), 146-156

Microrobots with Antimicrobial Peptide Nanoarchitectonics for the Eradication of Antibiotic-Resistant Biofilms

• Vedran Milosavljevic, Ludmila Kosaristanova, Kristyna Dolezelikova, Vojtech Adam, and Martin Pumera*
• Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32(43), 2112935

Fully Programmable Collective Behavior of Light-Powered Chemical Microrobotics: pH-Dependent Motion Behavior Switch and Controlled Cancer Cell Destruction

• Lukas Dekanovsky, Yulong Ying, Jaroslav Zelenka, Jan Plutnar, Seyyed Mohsen Beladi-Mousavi, Ivana Křížová, Filip Novotný, Tomáš Ruml, and Martin Pumera*
• Advanced Functional Materilas 2022, ()

Microrobotic photocatalyst on-the-fly: 1D/2D nanoarchitectonic hybrid-based layered metal thiophosphate magnetic micromachines for enhanced photodegradation of nerve agent

• Jeonghyo Kim, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Martin Pumera*
• Chemical Engineering Journal 2022, 446(), 137342

Microrobotic carrier with enzymatically encoded drug release in the presence of pancreatic cancer cells via programmed self-destruction

• Marta Pacheco, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Jitka Viktorova, Tomáš Ruml, Alberto Escarpa, Martin Pumera*
• Applied Materials Today 2022, 27(), 101494

Collective behavior of magnetic microrobots through immuno-sandwich assay: On-the-fly COVID-19 sensing

• Carmen C. Mayorga Martinez, Jan Vyskočil, Filip Novotný, Petr Bednar, Daniel Ruzek, Osamah Alduhaish, and Martin Pumera*
• Applied Materials Today 2022, 26(), 101337

Biotemplating of Metal–Organic Framework Nanocrystals for Applications in Small-Scale Robotics

• Anastasia Terzopoulou, Mario Palacios-Corella, Carlos Franco, Semih Sevim, Thomas Dysli, Fajer Mushtaq, María Romero-Angel, Carlos Martí-Gastaldo, De Gong, Jun Cai, Xiang-Zhong Chen, Martin Pumera, Andrew J. deMello, Bradley J. Nelson, Salvador Pané*, and Josep Puigmartí-Luis*
• Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32(13), 2107421

Ultrasonically Propelled Micro- and Nanorobots

• Jinhua Li, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Claus-Dieter Ohl, and Martin Pumera*
• Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32(5), 2102265

Light-Driven Micromotors to Dissociate Protein Aggregates That Cause Neurodegenerative Diseases

• Paula Mayorga-Burrezo, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, and Martin Pumera*
• Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32(1), 2106699

Nickel Sulfide Microrockets as Self-Propelled Energy Storage Devices to Power Electronic Circuits “On-Demand”

• Mario Urso, Christian Iffelsberger, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, and Martin Pumera*
• Small Methods 2021, 5(10), 2100511

Photo-Fenton Degradation of Nitroaromatic Explosives by Light-Powered Hematite Microrobots: When Higher Speed Is Not What We Go For

• Xia Peng, Mario Urso, and Martin Pumera*
• Small Methods 2021, 5(10), 2100617

Functional 2D Germanene Fluorescent Coating of Microrobots for Micromachines Multiplexing

• Tijana Maric, Seyyed Mohsen Beladi-Mousavi, Bahareh Kherzi, Jiri Sturala, Muhammad Zafir Mohamad Nasir, Richard D. Webster, Zdeněk Sofer, and Martin Pumera*
• Small 2020, 16(27), 1902365

Corrosion of light powered Pt/TiO2 microrobots

• Tijana Maric, Muhammad Zafir Mohamad Nasir, Maja Budanovic, Osamah Alduhaish, Richard D. Webster, and Martin Pumera*
• Applied Materials Today 2020, 20(), 100659

Cloisite Microrobots as Self-Propelling Cleaners for Fast and Efficient Removal of Improvised Organophosphate Nerve Agents

• Tijana Maric, Muhammad Zafir Mohamad Nasir, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Nur Farhanah Rosli, Maja Budanović, Kateřina Szokölová, Richard D. Webster, Zdeněk Sofer, and Martin Pumera*
• ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11(35), 31832-31843