Assembly of fillable microrobotic systems by microfluidic loading with dip sealing

Accepted/In Press date: 11 December 2022

e-pub ahead of print date: 26 February 2023

Published date: 28 February 2023

Additional Information: Funding information: The authors thank Nuala Del Piccolo and Ravi Desai for manuscript proofreading, and Akemi Nogiwa Valdez for extensive manuscript and data management support. The authors acknowledge access to SEM facilities at the Harvey Flower Electron Microscopy Suite (Department of Materials, Imperial College London) and confocal microscopy facilities at the Department of Bioengineering (Imperial College London). The authors acknowledge the Biological Imaging Centre (BIC) at Imperial College London for providing access to the FMT. The FMT equipment was purchased by an infrastructure grant from the British Heart Foundation. The authors thank Samuel Owen (Vascular Science, NHLI) and Nicoleta Baxan for their support and expertise with setting up and running the FMT experiments of this study. The authors acknowledge support from the Henry Royce Institute made through EPSRC grant EP/P02520X/1. The authors thank Bruno Rente for his expertise and support with setting up and running the physical vapor deposition of this study. X.S. acknowledges the financial support from the China Scholarship Council. R.W. and M.M.S. acknowledges funding from The Rosetrees Trust and The Stoneygate Trust under the Young Enterprise Fellowship agreement (A2741/M873). O.R.-G. kindly thanks the support given by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) through an Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship (P2FRP2_181432) and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement (893158). D.P. acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement (101027174). R.X. and M.M.S. acknowledge support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P00114/1). M.M.S. acknowledges support from the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies award (CiET2021∖94) and the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (098411/Z/12/Z). This work was supported in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The findings and conclusions contained within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Under the grant conditions of the Foundation, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License has already been assigned to the Author Accepted Manuscript version that might arise from this submission.

Keywords: environmental sensing, fillable microrobotics, microfluidics, micromotors, targeted delivery

Local EPrints ID: 486914

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/486914

DOI: doi:10.1002/adma.202207791

ISSN: 1521-4095

PURE UUID: 1695d587-54c0-4e24-bbe7-2689756f51e1

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