Fabric of magnetically actuated microstructure for targeted cell transportation

Abstract

Here, we present a method for fabrication of full three-dimensional porous microstructures (microscaffolds) using photocurable polymer. The structures were coated with nickel and titanium for magnetic manipulation and biocompatibility, respectively. Fabricated microstructures were controlled by external magnetic fields for remote actuation. Human embryonic kidney 293 cells were cultured in the microstructures to demonstrate their feasibility for cell transportation. The fabricated microstructures described here are suitable for targeted cell transportation platforms.

Multistimuli-responsive microrobots: A comprehensive review

“…Untethered, controllable, mobile microrobots with the ability to navigate into spaces at the microscale and below have been proposed for numerous applications, especially in manufacturing, biology, and medicine. The last 2 decades have seen tremendous effort in microrobotic development because of their potential to radically improve the efficacy of numerous tasks, such as targeted drug delivery, cleaning clogged arteries, cell sorting, biopsy (Jin et al, 2020), cell manipulation (Kim et al, 2013;Steager et al, 2013;Villa et al, 2018a;Hu et al, 2019), microsurgery (Vyskočil et al, 2020), and mixing of particles (Yigit et al, 2019). In addition, due to their small size, microrobots are uniquely suited for manipulating microscale parts to realize low-cost micro-assembly operations (Takahashi et al, 2016;Foroutan, 2018).…”