Issue 7, 2023

Soft robot-enabled controlled release of oral drug formulations

Abstract

The creation of highly effective oral drug delivery systems (ODDSs) has long been the main objective of pharmaceutical research. Multidisciplinary efforts involving materials, electronics, control, and pharmaceutical sciences encourage the development of robot-enabled ODDSs. Compared with conventional rigid robots, soft robots potentially offer better mechanical compliance and biocompatibility with biological tissues, more versatile shape control and maneuverability, and multifunctionality. In this paper, we first describe and highlight the importance of manipulating drug release kinetics, i.e. pharmaceutical kinetics. We then introduce an overview of state-of-the-art soft robot-based ODDSs comprising resident, shape-programming, locomotive, and integrated soft robots. Finally, the challenges and outlook regarding future soft robot-based ODDS development are discussed.

Graphical abstract: Soft robot-enabled controlled release of oral drug formulations

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
10 dec 2022
Accepted
22 jan 2023
First published
24 jan 2023

Soft Matter, 2023,19, 1269-1281

Soft robot-enabled controlled release of oral drug formulations

H. Huang, Y. Lyu and K. Nan, Soft Matter, 2023, 19, 1269 DOI: 10.1039/D2SM01624A

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