title: Hybrid Magnetoelectric Nanowires for Nanorobotic Applications: Fabrication, Magnetoelectric Coupling, and Magnetically Assisted In Vitro Targeted Drug Delivery.
abstract: An FeGa@P(VDF-TrFE) wire-shaped magnetoelectric nanorobot is designed and fabricated to demonstrate a proof-of-concept integrated device, which features wireless locomotion and on-site triggered therapeutics with a single external power source (i.e., a magnetic field). The device can be precisely steered toward a targeted location wirelessly by rotating magnetic fields and perform on-demand magnetoelectrically assisted drug release to kill cancer cells.
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Xiang-Zhong
authors.initials: XZ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoop
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Naveen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shamsudhin
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Tianyun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Berna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Özkale
authors.affiliation: Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Erdem
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Siringil
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Fajer
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mushtaq
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Di Tizio
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Bradley J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.affiliation: Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pané
mesh_terms: D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D065546:Drug Liberation; D060526:Magnetic Fields; D053770:Nanowires
keywords: FeGa; P(VDF-TrFE); ferroelectrics; magnetoelectrics; nanorobotics