PMID- 36408765
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230119
LR  - 20230207
IS  - 2366-9608 (Electronic)
IS  - 2366-9608 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 Jan
TI  - Soft Magnetic Microrobots for Photoactive Pollutant Removal.
PG  - e2201014
LID - 10.1002/smtd.202201014 [doi]
AB  - "Soft" robotics based on hydrogels appears as an alternative to the traditional 
      technology of "hard" robotics. Soft microrobots are employed for drug delivery 
      and cell manipulation. This work develops magnetic hydrogel-based microrobots 
      using chitosan (CHI) as the body of the micromotor and Fe(3) O(4) nanoparticles 
      to allow for its magnetic actuation. In addition, ZnO nanoparticles are 
      incorporated inside the CHI body of the microrobot to act as an active component 
      for pollutants photodegradation. CHI@Fe(3) O(4) -ZnO microrobots are used for the 
      efficient photodegradation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The high 
      absorption of CHI hydrogel enhances the POP photodegradation, degrading it 75% in 
      just 30 min. The adsorption-degradation and magnetic properties of CHI@Fe(3) O(4) 
      -ZnO microrobots are used in five cycles while maintaining up to 60% 
      photodegradation efficiency. The proof-of-concept present in this work represents 
      a simple way to obtain soft microrobots with magnetic actuation and 
      photodegradation functionalities for several water purification applications.
CI  - (c) 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
FAU - Maria-Hormigos, Roberto
AU  - Maria-Hormigos R
AD  - Center for Advanced Functional Nanorobots, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, 
      University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, 616628, Prague, Czech Republic.
FAU - Mayorga-Martinez, Carmen C
AU  - Mayorga-Martinez CC
AD  - Center for Advanced Functional Nanorobots, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, 
      University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, 616628, Prague, Czech Republic.
FAU - Pumera, Martin
AU  - Pumera M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5846-2951
AD  - Center for Advanced Functional Nanorobots, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, 
      University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, 616628, Prague, Czech Republic.
AD  - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 
      03722, South Korea.
AD  - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical 
      University of Ostrava, 70800, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
AD  - Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical 
      University, Taichung, 40402, Taiwan.
LA  - eng
GR  - CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000444/Advanced Functional Nanorobots"/
GR  - NU21-08-00407/Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic/
GR  - LL2002/Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221121
PL  - Germany
TA  - Small Methods
JT  - Small methods
JID - 101724536
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - SOI2LOH54Z (Zinc Oxide)
RN  - 0 (Hydrogels)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants
MH  - *Zinc Oxide
MH  - Magnetics
MH  - Hydrogels
MH  - Magnetic Phenomena
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - chitosan
OT  - hydrogel
OT  - magnetic-driven microrobots
OT  - nano/micromotors
OT  - soft robotics
EDAT- 2022/11/22 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/20 06:00
CRDT- 2022/11/21 05:32
PHST- 2022/10/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/08/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/11/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/20 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/11/21 05:32 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/smtd.202201014 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Small Methods. 2023 Jan;7(1):e2201014. doi: 10.1002/smtd.202201014. Epub 2022 Nov 
      21.