Medical microbots to support new assisted reproduction techniques

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

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
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
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 59/35, 2020, Page(s) 15029-15037, ISSN 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202005657

Micromotor-mediated sperm constrictions for improved swimming performance

Author(s): Friedrich Striggow, Lidiia Nadporozhskaia, Benjamin M. Friedrich, Oliver G. Schmidt, Mariana Medina-Sánchez
Published in: The European Physical Journal E, Issue 44/5, 2021, ISSN 1292-8941
DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00050-9

Switching Propulsion Mechanisms of Tubular Catalytic Micromotors

Author(s): Paul Wrede, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez, Vladimir M. Fomin, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Small, Issue 17/12, 2021, Page(s) 2006449, ISSN 1613-6810
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202006449

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
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05530

Real-Time Optoacoustic Tracking of Single Moving Micro-objects in Deep Phantom and Ex Vivo Tissues

Author(s): Azaam Aziz, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Jing Claussen, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 19/9, 2019, Page(s) 6612-6620, ISSN 1530-6984
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02869

Sperm-hybrid micromotors: on-board assistance for nature's bustling swimmers

Author(s): Lukas Schwarz, Mariana Medina-Sanchez, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Reproduction, 2019, ISSN 1470-1626
DOI: 10.1530/rep-19-0096

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, 2019, Page(s) 1905272, ISSN 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201905272

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
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202000213

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
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07851

3D and 4D lithography of untethered microrobots

Author(s): Fatemeh Rajabasadi, Lukas Schwarz, Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Oliver G. Schmidt
Published in: Progress in Materials Science, Issue 120, 2021, Page(s) 100808, ISSN 0079-6425
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2021.100808

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
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202000843