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Progress in Chemistry 2019, Vol. 31 Issue (1): 63-69 DOI: 10.7536/PC180407 Previous Articles   Next Articles

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Micro/Nanomotors as Drug Delivery Agent

Peifeng Su, Hongxin Wu, Yongming Chen, Fei Peng*()   

  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite & Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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    † These authors contributed equally to this work
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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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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.

Key words: micro/nanomotors, drug delivery, motion mechanism, motor structure, motion control
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Fig.3 (a)The drug delivery of Ag/Ni nanomotors towards cancer cells under magnetic field[36]. Copyright 2012, John Wiley and Sons; (b)The direction control of Ni/Al/EGaIn motor with an electrical field[7]. Copyright 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry
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Micro/Nanomotors as Drug Delivery Agent