Stop-Flow Lithography for the Continuous Production of Degradable Hydrogel Achiral Crescent Microswimmers.

ABSTRACT: The small size of robotic microswimmers makes them suitable for performing biomedical tasks in tiny, enclosed spaces. Considering the effects of potentially long-term retention of microswimmers in biological tissues and the environment, the degradability of microswimmers has become one of the pressing issues in this field. While degradable hydrogel was successfully used to prepare microswimmers in previous reports, most hydrogel microswimmers could only be fabricated using two-photon polymerization (TPP) due to their 3D structures, resulting in costly robotic microswimmers solution. This limits the potential of hydrogel microswimmers to be used in applications where a large number of microswimmers are needed. Here, we proposed a new type of preparation method for degradable hydrogel achira

SUBMITTER: Xiong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9144168 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature