Our Machines have been widely used
Applications in Micromanipulation
Small, Fast, and Under Control
Small, Fast, and Under Control: Wireless resonant Magnetic Micro-Agents. Dominic R. Frutiger, Karl Vollmers, Bradley E. Kratochvil and Bradley J. Nelson. Int. J. Robot. Res. 29, 613-636 (2010).
Manipulation using Artificial Bacterial Flagella
Localized non-contact manipulation using artificial bacterial flagella. Kathrin E. Peyer, Li Zhang and Bradley J. Nelson. Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 174101 (2011).
Targeted Cargo Delivery
Targeted Cargo Delivery Using a Rotating Nickel Nanowire. Li Zhang, Tristan Petit, Kathrin E. Peyer and Bradley J. Nelson. Nanomedicine: NBM 8, 1074-1080 (2012).
3D Magnetic Manipulation
Simone Schuerle, Sandro Erni, Maarten Flink, Bradley E. Kratochvil, and Bradley J. Nelson, Three-Dimensional Magnetic Manipulation of Micro- and Nanostructures for Applications in Life Sciences. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 49 (1), 321-330 (2013)
Noncontact manipulation
Noncontact manipulation using a transversely magnetized rolling robot. Hsi-Wen Tung, Kathrin E. Peyer, David F. Sargent and Bradley J. Nelson. Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 114101 (2013).
Soft magnetic millirobots for drug delivery
Soft Capsule Magnetic Millirobots for Region-Specific Drug Delivery in the Central
Nervous System. Mair LO etal. Front. Robot. AI 8:702566. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.702566 (2021).
3D Microprobing in an Anisotropic Environment
3D magnetically controlled spatiotemporal probing and actuation of collagen networks from a single cell perspective. Daphne O. Asgeirsson, Michael G. Christiansen, Thomas Valentin, Luca Somm, Nima Mirkhani, Amin Hosseini Nami, Vahid Hosseini and Simone Schuerle.
Lab on a Chip, 21 (20), 3850-3862 (2021)
Applications in Medicine
Localized Viscoelasticity Measurements
Measuring localized viscoelasticity of the vitreous body using intraocular microprobes. Juho Pokki, Olgac Ergeneman, Semih Sevim, Volker Enzmann, Hamdi Torun and Bradley J. Nelson. Biomedical microdevices 17 (5), 85 (2015)
Magnetically controlled microprey
Robotically controlled microprey to resolve initial attack modes preceding phagocytosis
Simone Schuerle, Ima Avalos Vizcarra, Jens Moeller, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Berna Özkale, Andre Machado Lindo, Fajer Mushtaq, Ingmar Schoen, Salvador Pané, Viola Vogel and Bradley J. Nelson. Science Robotics 2 (2), eaah6094 (2017)
Miscellaneous Applications
Propulsion with magneto-acoustic fields
Daniel Ahmed, Thierry Baasch, Nicolas Blondel, Nino Läubli, Jürg Dual & Bradley J. Nelson
Neutrophil-inspired propulsion in a combined acoustic and magnetic field. Nature Communications 8 , Article number: 770 (2017)
Magnetically controlled optical modulation
Cellulose‐Based Microparticles for Magnetically Controlled Optical Modulation and Sensing
Michael K. Hausmann, Alina Hauser, Gilberto Siqueira, Rafael Libanori, Signe Lin Vehusheia, Simone Schurle, Tanja Zimmermann and André R. Studart. Small, vol. 16: no. 1, pp. 1904251 (2019)