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Micro/Nanomotors as Drug Delivery Agent

Peifeng Su , Hongxin Wu , Yongming Chen , Fei Peng

Progress in Chemistry ›› 2019, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (1) : 63 -69.

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Progress in Chemistry ›› 2019, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (1) : 63-69 DOI: 10.7536/PC180407
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Inspired by the highly efficient biological motors in nature, researchers proposed the concept of micro/nanomotors, or micro/nanoscale autonomously moving devices. Combining the technology of chemistry, physics and multidisciplines, various micro/nanomotors of different structures, motion mechanisms and control methods are fabricated. These micro/nanomotors demonstrate great promises in multiple fields including sensing, environment remediation, biomedicine, etc. One of the most important applications in biomedicine is drug delivery. The micro/nanomotors can achieve efficient drug delivery, shedding new light for conventional cancer therapy. In this review, we focus on micro/nanomotors for drug delivery and introduce their structures, mechanisms and control methods. The motion mechanisms(self field mechanism and external field mechanism) of micro/nanomotors will be covered. Motor structures(polymer vesicle, tube and nanowire) suitable for drug delivery will be introduced. For efficient targeted drug delivery, motion control is very important. The on-off control, direction control and velocity control will be discussed. Current bottlenecks are also summarized and possible future direction of the field is discussed.

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micro/nanomotors / drug delivery / motion mechanism / motor structure / motion control

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Peifeng Su, Hongxin Wu, Yongming Chen, Fei Peng. Micro/Nanomotors as Drug Delivery Agent. Progress in Chemistry, 2019, 31(1): 63-69 DOI:10.7536/PC180407

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This work was supported by the Sun Yat-sen University Hundred Talents Plan(29000-18831106)

The Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program(2013S086)

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