Microrobotic Gamete/Zygote IntraFallopian Transfer

Electronically integrated microcatheters based on self-assembling polymer films

Author(s): Boris Rivkin, Christian Becker, Balram Singh, Azaam Aziz, Farzin Akbar, Aleksandr Egunov, Dmitriy D. Karnaushenko, Ronald Naumann, Rudolf Schäfer, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Daniil Karnaushenko, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl5408

Sperm‐Driven Micromotors Moving in Oviduct Fluid and Viscoelastic Media

Author(s): Friedrich Striggow, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez, Günter K. Auernhammer, Veronika Magdanz, Benjamin M. Friedrich, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Small, Issue 16/24, 2020, Page(s) 2000213, ISSN 1613-6810
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202000213

P-260 In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) using magnetotactic sperm cells and their prospects for assisted in vivo reproduction

Author(s): C Ribeiro, F Striggow, F Hebenstreit, R Nauber, J Schoen, M Medina-Sanchez
Published in: Human Reproduction, Issue 39, 2024, ISSN 0268-1161
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deae108.630

Smart Surface Engineering in Microcarriers: Toward Applications in Cancer Therapy

Author(s): Fatemeh Rajabasadi, Silvia Moreno, Mercedes Gonzalez Rico, Pedro Viñola, Kristin Fichna, Franziska Hebenstreit, Susanne Boye, Andreas Janke, Dietmar Appelhans, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez
Published in: Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2025, ISSN 1438-7492
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/mame.202500058

Medical Microrobots in Reproductive Medicine: From the bench to the clinic

Author(s): Richard Nauber, Sandhya Rani Goudu, M. Goeckenjan, M. Bornhäuser, Carla Ribeiro, M. Medina-Sánchez
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36215-7

Real‐Time IR Tracking of Single Reflective Micromotors through Scattering Tissues

Author(s): Azaam Aziz, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez, Nektarios Koukourakis, Jiawei Wang, Robert Kuschmierz, Hannes Radner, Jürgen W. Czarske, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 29/51, 2019, Page(s) 1905272, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201905272

Technology Roadmap of Micro/Nanorobots

Author(s): Xiaohui Ju, Chuanrui Chen, Cagatay M. Oral, Semih Sevim, Ramin Golestanian, Mengmeng Sun, Negin Bouzari, Xiankun Lin, Mario Urso, Jong Seok Nam, Yujang Cho, Xia Peng, Fabian C. Landers, Shihao Yang, Azin Adibi, Nahid Taz, Raphael Wittkowski, Daniel Ahmed, Wei Wang, Veronika Magdanz, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Maria Guix, Naimat Bari, Bahareh Behkam, Raymond Kapral, Yaxin Huang, Jinyao Tang, Ben Wang
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 24174-24334, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c03911

Self-assembled sensor-in-a-tube as a versatile tool for label-free EIS viability investigation of cervical cancer cells

Author(s): Eashika Ghosh, Aleksandr I. Egunov, Daniil Karnaushenko, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Frequenz, Issue 76, 2023, Page(s) 729-740, ISSN 0016-1136
Publisher: Fachverlag Schiele and Schoen GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/freq-2022-0090

Electronically integrated micro-catheters based on self-assembling polymer films

Author(s): Boris Rivkin, Christian Becker, Balram Singh, Azaam Aziz, Farzin Akbar, Aleksandr Egunov, Dmitriy D. Karnaushenko, Ronald Naumann, Rudolf Schäfer, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Daniil Karnaushenko, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Science Advances, 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl540

Microrobots in gynaecological care and reproductive medicine

Author(s): Zhi Chen, Mariana Medina Sánchez
Published in: Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, Issue 1, 2024, Page(s) 759-761, ISSN 2948-1201
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44287-024-00102-0

Special Issue on Computational Ultrasound Imaging and Applications

Author(s): Richard Nauber; Lars Büttner; Jürgen Czarske
Published in: Applied Sciences, Vol 14, Iss 3, p 964 (2024), Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2078-2489
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/app14030964

Remotely Controlled Electrochemical Degradation of Metallic Implants

Author(s): Boris Rivkin, Farzin Akbar, Martin Otto, Lukas Beyer, Birgit Paul, Konrad Kosiba, Tobias Gustmann, Julia Hufenbach, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez
Published in: Small, Issue 20, 2024, ISSN 1613-6810
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202307742

Responsive Magnetic Nanocomposites for Intelligent Shape-Morphing Microrobots

Author(s): Yuan Liu; Gungun Lin; Mariana Medina-Sánchez; Maria Guix; Denys Makarov; Dayong Jin
Published in: ACS Nano 17(2023), 8899, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c01609

3D nanofabricated soft microrobots with super-compliant picoforce springs as onboard sensors and actuators

Author(s): Haifeng Xu, Song Wu, Yuan Liu, Xiaopu Wang, Artem K. Efremov, Lei Wang, John S. McCaskill, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Nature Nanotechnology, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) 494-503, ISSN 1748-3387
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01567-0

Human spermbots for patient-representative 3D ovarian cancer cell treatment

Author(s): Haifeng Xu, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Wunan Zhang, Melanie P. H. Seaton, Daniel R. Brison, Richard J. Edmondson, Stephen S. Taylor, Louisa Nelson, Kang Zeng, Steven Bagley, Carla Ribeiro, Lina P. Restrepo, Elkin Lucena, Christine K. Schmidt, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 12/39, 2020, Page(s) 20467-20481, ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0nr04488a

Magnetic Micromotors for Multiple Motile Sperm Cells Capture, Transport, and Enzymatic Release

Author(s): Haifeng Xu; Mariana Medina-Sánchez; Oliver G. Schmidt; Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English), Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202005657

Dual Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Tracking of Magnetically Driven Micromotors: From In Vitro to In Vivo

Author(s): Azaam Aziz, Joost Holthof, Sandra Meyer, Oliver G. Schmidt, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez
Published in: Advanced Healthcare Materials, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2192-2640
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202101077

3D and 4D Lithography of Untethered Microrobots

Author(s): Fatemeh Rajabasadi, Lukas Schwarz, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, O.G. Schmidt
Published in: Progress in Material Science, 2021, ISSN 1873-2208
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2021.100808

Medical Imaging of Microrobots: Toward In Vivo Applications

Author(s): Azaam Aziz, Stefano Pane, Veronica Iacovacci, Nektarios Koukourakis, Jürgen Czarske, Arianna Menciassi, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 14/9, 2020, Page(s) 10865-10893, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05530

In vivo imaging of swimming micromotors using hybrid high-frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging

Author(s): Azaam Aziz, J. Holthof, S. Meyer, O.G. Schmidt, M. Medina-Sánchez
Published in: Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2021, ISSN 2192-2659
Publisher: World Scientific
DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.15.148791

A Rotating Spiral Micromotor for Noninvasive Zygote Transfer

Author(s): Lukas Schwarz, Dmitriy D. Karnaushenko, Franziska Hebenstreit, Ronald Naumann, Oliver G. Schmidt, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez
Published in: Advanced Science, Issue 7/18, 2020, Page(s) 2000843, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202000843

Multimodal Imaging, Drug Delivery, and On‐Board Triggered Degradation in Soft Capsule Rolling Microrobots

Author(s): David Castellanos‐Robles, Raphaël C. L.‐M. Doineau, Azaam Aziz, Richard Nauber, Song Wu, Silvia Moreno, Konstantina Mitropoulou, Franziska Hebenstreit, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202400230

Nano-biosupercapacitors enable autarkic sensor operation in blood

Author(s): Yeji Lee, Vineeth Kumar Bandari, Zhe Li, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Manfred F. Maitz, Daniil Karnaushenko, Mikhail V. Tsurkan, Dmitriy D. Karnaushenko, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24863-6

Small Scale Propulsion: How Systematic Studies of Low Reynolds Number Physics Can Bring Micro/Nanomachines to New Horizons

Author(s): Wrede, Paul; Medina-Sánchez, Mariana; Fomin, Vladimir M.
Published in: Journal of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 2692-630X
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.33696/nanotechnol.3.028

Micromotor-mediated sperm constrictions for improved swimming performance

Author(s): F. Striggow, L. Nadporozhskaia, B. M. Friedrich, O. Schmidt, M. Medina-Sánchez
Published in: The European Physical Journal E, 2021, ISSN 1292-8941
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00050-9

Advanced materials for micro/nanorobotics

Author(s): Jeonghyo Kim, Paula Mayorga-Burrezo, Su-Jin Song, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Salvador Pané, Martin Pumera
Published in: Chemical Society Reviews, Issue 53, 2024, Page(s) 9190-9253, ISSN 0306-0012
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3cs00777d

Advancements in Machine Learning for Microrobotics in Biomedicine

Author(s): Amar Salehi, Soleiman Hosseinpour, Nasrollah Tabatabaei, Mahmoud Soltani Firouz, Niloufar Zadebana, Richard Nauber, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2024, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202400458

Multifunctional 4D‐Printed Sperm‐Hybrid Microcarriers for Assisted Reproduction

Author(s): Fatemeh Rajabasadi, Silvia Moreno, Kristin Fichna, Azaam Aziz, Dietmar Appelhans, Oliver G. Schmidt, Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2022, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202204257

Shape‐Controlled Flexible Microelectronics Facilitated by Integrated Sensors and Conductive Polymer Actuators

Author(s): Boris Rivkin, Christian Becker, Farzin Akbar, Rachappa Ravishankar, Dmitriy D. Karnaushenko, Ronald Naumann, Alaleh Mirhajivarzaneh, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Daniil Karnaushenko, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, Issue 3/6, 2021, Page(s) 2000238, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202000238

Nanomaterial-decorated micromotors for enhanced photoacoustic imaging

Author(s): Azaam Aziz, Richard Nauber, Ana Iglesias-Sánchez, L-M. Marzán, O.G. Schmidt, M. Medina-Sánchez.
Published in: Micro-BioRobotics, 2023, ISSN 2194-6426
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s12213-023-00156-7

Engineering microrobots for targeted cancer therapies from a medical perspective

Author(s): Christine K. Schmidt, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Richard J. Edmondson, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19322-7

Sperm Micromotors for Cargo Delivery through Flowing Blood

Author(s): Haifeng Xu, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Manfred F. Maitz, Carsten Werner, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 14/3, 2020, Page(s) 2982-2993, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07851

Portable microfluidic impedance biosensor for SARS-CoV-2 detection

Author(s): Soroush Laleh, Bergoi Ibarlucea, Marlena Stadtmüller, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Published in: Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Issue 236, 2023, Page(s) 115362, ISSN 0956-5663
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115362

IRONSperm: Sperm-templated soft magnetic microrobots.

Author(s): Veronika Magdanz; Islam S. M. Khalil; Juliane Simmchen; Guilherme Phillips Furtado; Sumit Mohanty; Johannes Gebauer; Haifeng Xu; Anke Klingner; Azaam Aziz; Mariana Medina-Sánchez; Oliver G. Schmidt; Oliver G. Schmidt; Oliver G. Schmidt; Sarthak Misra; Sarthak Misra
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
DOI: 10.34657/3695

Optimization of Smart Microactuators Utilizing 2D and 3D Lithography

Author(s): Sumaiya Tahera Rahman, David Castellanos Robles, Fatemeh Rajabasadi, Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Published in: 2024 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), 2024, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/marss61851.2024.10612708

Photoacoustics-Guided Real-Time Closed-Loop Control of Magnetic Microrobots Through Deep Learning

Author(s): Richard Nauber, Johanna Hoppe, David Castellanos Robles, Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Published in: 2024 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), 2024, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/marss61851.2024.10612756

Tracking of Magnetic Micromotors in Confined Channels Through Scattering Tissue

Author(s): Azaam Aziz; Dmitriy Karnaushenko; Nektarios Koukourakis; Jurgen W. Czarske; Oliver G. Schmidt; Mariana Medina-Sanchez
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: NanoMed
DOI: 10.1109/nanomed54179.2021.9766491

Study of the influence of loss function weights with YOLOv8 and YOLOv9 on the tracking accuracy of medical microrobots

Author(s): Johanna Hoppe, Richard Nauber, David Castellanos Robles, Juergen Czarske
Published in: 024 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), bioRxiv, 2025
Publisher: bioRxiv

Microrobot’s Performance in Cell-Lining Surfaces and Ex-vivo Tissue

Author(s): Carla Ribeiro, Richard Nauber, Azaam Aziz, David Castellanos Robles, Franziska Hebenstreit, Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Published in: 2025
Publisher: International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5415311/v1

Geometry matters: Gamete transport using magnetic microrobots

Author(s): David Castellanos Robles, Farzin Akbar, Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Published in: Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, 2024, Page(s) 540-551
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-90800-9.00231-6

Sperm-micromotors for assisted reproduction and drug delivery

Author(s): Friedrich Striggow, Farzin Akbar, Azaam Aziz, Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Published in: Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots, 2024, Page(s) 239-264
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-443-13385-5.00003-9

Magnetic Micromotors in Assisted Reproductive Technology

Author(s): Lukas Schwarz
Published in: 2020
Publisher: TU Chemnitz

Three-dimensional microtomography

Author(s): O. G. Schmidt, M. Medina-Sánchez, S. M. Weiz
Published in: 2020
Publisher: US Patent App. 16/462,743, 2020

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