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Physical Intelligence Article 3D-printed micrometer-scale wireless magnetic cilia with metachronal programmability Zhang, S., Hu, X., Li, M., Bozuyuk, U., Zhang, R., Suadiye, E., Han, J., Wang, F., Onck, P., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 9(12), 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Patent A Liquid Repellent Fibrillar Dry Adhesive Material and a Method of Producing the Same Sitti, M., Drotlef, D., Liimatainen, V. 2023, US Patent App. 17/785,452 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article A ferroelectric/ferroelastic energy harvester: Load impedance and frequency effects Kang, W., Cain, C., Paynter, R., Huber, J. E. Energy Conversion and Management, 277, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Acoustic Streaming-Induced Multimodal Locomotion of Bubble-Based Microrobots Mahkam, N., Aghakhani, A., Sheehan, D., Gardi, G., Katzschmann, R., Sitti, M. Advanced Science, 10(35):2304233, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Acoustic Trapping and Manipulation of Hollow Microparticles under Fluid Flow Using a Single-Lens Focused Ultrasound Transducer Wrede, P., Aghakhani, A., Bozuyuk, U., Yildiz, E., Sitti, M. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 15(45):52224-52236, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Active Tail Configurations for Enhanced Body Reorientation Performance Kim, H., Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5(2):2200219, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Actuation-enhanced multifunctional sensing and information recognition by magnetic artificial cilia arrays Han, J., Dong, X., Yin, Z., Zhang, S., Li, M., Zheng, Z., Ugurlu, M. C., Jiang, W., Liu, H., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(42):e2308301120, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Bio-inspired rotary flight of light-driven nanocomposite films Wang, D., Chen, Z., Li, M., Hou, Z., Zhan, C., Zheng, Q., Wang, D., Wang, X., Cheng, M., Hu, W., Sitti, M., others, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired microstructured adhesives with facile and fast switchability for part manipulation in dry and wet conditions Pang, C., Kim, J., Wu, Y., Wang, M. Y., Yu, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(38):2303116, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired rotary flight of light-driven composite films Wang, D., Chen, Z., Li, M., Hou, Z., Zhan, C., Zheng, Q., Wang, D., Wang, X., Cheng, M., Hu, W., others, Nature Communications, 14(1):5070, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired self-assembled colloidal collectives drifting in three dimensions underwater Sun, M., Yang, S., Jiang, J., Jiang, S., Sitti, M., Zhang, L. Science Advances, 9(45):eadj4201, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Broad-Wavelength Light-Driven High-Speed Hybrid Crystal Actuators Actuated Inside Tissue-Like Phantoms Kim, D. W., Hagiwara, Y., Hasebe, S., Dogan, N. O., Zhang, M., Asahi, T., Koshima, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(47):2305916, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Patent Carrier, use of a carrier, method of activating a carrier and method of making a carrier Drotlef, D., Sitti, M., Amjadi, M. 2023, US Patent App. 16/500,442 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymeric Coatings for Colorful Artificial Muscles and Motile Humidity Sensor Skin Integrated with Magnetic Composites Feng, W., Pal, A., Wang, T., Ren, Z., Yan, Y., Lu, Y., Yang, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(23), 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Deployable Soft Origami Modular Robotic Arm With Variable Stiffness Using Facet Buckling Park, M., Kim, W., Yu, S., Cho, J., Kang, W., Byun, J., Jeong, U., Cho, K. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(2):864-871, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Design and build of small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots with multimodal locomotion Ren, Z., Sitti, M. Nature Protocols, 19(2):441-486, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Designing Covalent Organic Framework-based Light-driven Microswimmers towards Intraocular Theranostic Applications Sridhar, V., Yildiz, E., Rodrı́guez-Camargo, A., Lyu, X., Yao, L., Wrede, P., Aghakhani, A., Akolpoglu, M. B., Podjaski, F., Lotsch, B. V., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 35(25), 2023 (Published)
While micromachines with tailored functionalities enable therapeutic applications in biological environments, their controlled motion and targeted drug delivery in biological media require sophisticated designs for practical applications. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), a new generation of crystalline and nanoporous polymers, offer new perspectives for light-driven microswimmers in heterogeneous biological environments including intraocular fluids, thus setting the stage for biomedical applications such as retinal drug delivery. Two different types of COFs, uniformly spherical TABP-PDA-COF sub-micrometer particles and texturally nanoporous, micrometer-sized TpAzo-COF particles are described and compared as light-driven microrobots. They can be used as highly efficient visible-light-driven drug carriers in aqueous ionic and cellular media. Their absorption ranging down to red light enables phototaxis even in deeper and viscous biological media, while the organic nature of COFs ensures their biocompatibility. Their inherently porous structures with ≈2.6 and ≈3.4 nm pores, and large surface areas allow for targeted and efficient drug loading even for insoluble drugs, which can be released on demand. Additionally, indocyanine green (ICG) dye loading in the pores enables photoacoustic imaging, optical coherence tomography, and hyperthermia in operando conditions. This real-time visualization of the drug-loaded COF microswimmers enables unique insights into the action of photoactive porous drug carriers for therapeutic applications.
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Physical Intelligence Patent Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives M Sitti, M. M. B. A. 2023, US Patent 11,773,298, 2023 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Hydrogel muscles powering reconfigurable micro-metastructures with wide-spectrum programmability Zhang, M., Pal, A., Zheng, Z., Gardi, G., Yildiz, E., Sitti, M. Nature Materials, 22(10):1243-1252, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Integrated mechanologics for autonomous soft machines Pal, A., Byun, J., Ko, J., Sitti, M. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2023 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Liquid Metal Microdroplet-Initiated Ultra-Fast Polymerization of a Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel Composite Zhang, J., Liao, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, R., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article MRI-powered Magnetic Miniature Capsule Robot with HIFU-controlled On-demand Drug Delivery Tiryaki, M. E., Dogangun, F., Dayan, C. B., Wrede, P., Sitti, M. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07197, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Machine Learning-Based Shear Optimal Adhesive Microstructures with Experimental Validation Dayan, C. B., Son, D., Aghakhani, A., Wu, Y., Demir, S. O., Sitti, M. Small, 2304437, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic Putty as A Reconfigurable, Recyclable, And Accessible Soft Robotic Material Li, M., Pal, A., Byun, J., Gardi, G., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 2304825, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic guidewire steering at ultrahigh magnetic fields Tiryaki, M. E., Elmacıoğlu, Y. G., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 9(17):eadg6438, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Patent Magnetic trap system and method of navigating a microscopic device Son, D., Ugurlu, M., Bluemer, P., Sitti, M. 2023, US Patent App. 17/871,598 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Patent Method of fabricating a magnetic deformable machine and deformable 3D magnetic machine Zhang, J., Ren, Z., Hu, W., Sitti, M. 2023, US Patent App. 18/020,161 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Micro-and nanofabrication of dynamic hydrogels with multichannel information Zhang, M., Lee, Y., Zheng, Z., Khan, M. T. A., Lyu, X., Byun, J., Giessen, H., Sitti, M. Nature Communications, 14(1):8208, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Patent Microfibers with mushroom-shaped tips for optimal adhesion Sitti, M., Aksak, B. 2023, US Patent 11,613,674 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Microrobotic Locomotion in Blood Vessels: A Computational Study on the Performance of Surface Microrollers in the Cardiovascular System Bozuyuk, U., Ozturk, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5(9):2300099, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article On-demand breaking of action-reaction reciprocity between magnetic microdisks using global stimuli Gardi, G., Sitti, M. Physical Review Letters, 131(5):058301, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Programmable mechanical devices through magnetically tunable bistable elements Pal, A., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(15):e2212489120, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Patent Simultaneous calibration method for magnetic localization and actuation systems Sitti, M., Son, D., Dong, X. 2023, US Patent 11,717,142 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Size-Dependent Locomotion Ability of Surface Microrollers on Physiologically Relevant Microtopographical Surfaces Bozuyuk, U., Yildiz, E., Han, M., Demir, S. O., Sitti, M. Small, 19(47):2303396, 2023 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Patent Tube-shaped robotic device with anisotropic surface structure Wang, T., Hu, W., Sitti, M. 2023, US Patent App. 18/133,104 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Entropy by neighbor distance as a new measure for characterizing spatiotemporal orders in microscopic collective systems Fu, Y., Wu, Z., Zhan, S., Yang, J., Gardi, G., Kishore, V., Malgaretti, P., Wang, W. Micromachines, 14(8):1503, MDPI, 2023 (Published) BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Control of Two-Degree-of-Freedom Inertial Appendages of a Small-Scale Jumping Robot for Enhanced Terrestrial and Aerial Maneuverability Hong, C., Tang, D., Quan, Q., Cao, Z., Wang, C., Sitti, M., Deng, Z. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 28(3):1754-1765, December 2022 DOI URL BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Patent DRY ADHESIVES AND METHODS FOR MAKING DRY ADHESIVES Metin Sitti, M. M. B. A. December 2022, US Patent App. 17/895,334, 2022 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Medical Systems Article Multifunctional 3D-Printed Pollen Grain-Inspired Hydrogel Microrobots for On-Demand Anchoring and Cargo Delivery Lee, Y., Kim, J., Bozuyuk, U., Dogan, N. O., Khan, M. T. A., Shiva, A., Wild, A., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 35(10):2209812, December 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Programmable aniso-electrodeposited modular hydrogel microrobots Zheng, Z., Wang, H., Demir, S. O., Huang, Q., Fukuda, T., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 8(50):eade6135, December 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article 3D-printed microrobots from design to translation Dabbagh, S. R., Sarabi, M. R., Birtek, M. T., Seyfi, S., Sitti, M., Tasoglu, S. Nature Communications, 13:5875, October 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Enhanced Flexible Mold Lifetime for Roll-to-Roll Scaled-Up Manufacturing of Adhesive Complex Microstructures Kim, J., Krishna-Subbaiah, N., Wu, Y., Ko, J., Shiva, A., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 35(2), Wiley Online Library, October 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Reduced rotational flows enable the translation of surface-rolling microrobots in confined spaces Bozuyuk, U., Aghakhani, A., Alapan, Y., Yunusa, M., Wrede, P., Sitti, M. Nature Communications, 13:6289, October 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Materials Medical Systems Article Remotely Guided Immunobots Engaged in Anti-Tumorigenic Phenotypes for Targeted Cancer Immunotherapy Dogan, N. O., Ceylan, H., Suadiye, E., Sheehan, D., Aydin, A., Yasa, I. C., Wild, A., Richter, G., Sitti, M. Small, 18(46):2204016, October 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Liquid Metal-Elastomer Composites with Dual-Energy Transmission Mode for Multifunctional Miniature Untethered Magnetic Robots Zhang, J., Soon, R. H., Wei, Z., Hu, W., Sitti, M. Advanced science, 9(31):2203730, September 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Scale-reconfigurable miniature ferrofluidic robots for negotiating sharply variable spaces Fan, X., Jiang, Y., Li, M., Zhang, Y., Tian, C., Mao, L., Xie, H., Sun, L., Yang, Z., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 8(37):eabq1677, September 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Adaptive wireless millirobotic locomotion into distal vasculature Wang, T., Ugurlu, H., Yan, Y., Li, M., Li, M., Wild, A., Yildiz, E., Schneider, M., Sheehan, D., Hu, W., Sitti, M. Nature Communications, 13(1):1-17, August 2022 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots Hong, C., Ren, Z., Wang, C., Li, M., Wu, Y., Tang, D., Hu, W., Sitti, M. Science Robotics, 7(69), August 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article On-demand anchoring of wireless soft miniature robots on soft surfaces Soon, R. H., Ren, Z., Hu, W., Bozuyuk, U., Yildiz, E., Li, M., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(34):e2207767119, August 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Piezo Capsule: Ultrasonic Way of Wireless Pressure Measurement Mutlu, S., Aghakhani, A., Sitti, M. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4(10):2200125, August 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX