Soft Microrobots
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2021) | Viewed by 480
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 3D printing; multi-material printing; smart materials; medical modelling; industrial design
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Soft microrobots are fascinating devices that can be actuated by an external stimuli to swim in fluids with diverse rheological properties. Most of the time, their swimming mechanisms are inspired from nature. They are simple in geometry but require fabrication at a microscale. They are small in size and have diverse applications in nanotechnology, minimally invasive surgery, and biomedicine. Therefore, this Special Issue has a multi-disciplinary nature and aims to show contributions from interdisciplinary expertise from multiple fields. Our aim is to present novel methodological fabrication, wireless actuation, minimally-invasive localization, mathematical modeling, and motion control methods of soft microrobots. This Special Issue also seeks to publish recent advances in translating soft microrobots into in vivo biomedical applications.
Prof. Ian Gibson
Dr. Islam S. M. Khalil
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft microrobots
- 3D printing
- multi-material printing
- biomimetics
- untethered
- smart materials
