Issue 34, 2023

Magnetic nanoparticle swarm with upstream motility and peritumor blood vessel crossing ability

Abstract

Micro-nano-robots show great potential and value for applications in targeted drug delivery; however, very few current studies have enabled micro-nano-robots to move against blood flow, and in addition, how micro-nano-robots can penetrate endothelial cells and enter tissues via vascular permeation remains unclear. Inspired by the bionics of dynamic aggregation in wild herring schools and transvascular permeation of leukocytes, we propose a novel drug delivery strategy where thousands of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) can be assembled into swarms under the guidance of a specially designed electromagnetic field. The vortex-like swarms of magnetic nanoparticles exhibit excellent stability, allowing them to withstand the impact of high-speed flow and move upstream along the vessel wall, stopping at the target location. When the vortex-like swarms encounter a tumor periphery without a continuous vessel wall, their rheological properties actively adhere them to the edges of the vascular endothelial gap, using their deformability to crawl through narrow intercellular gaps, enabling large-scale targeted drug delivery. This cluster of miniature nanorobots can be reshaped and reconfigured to perform a variety of tasks according to the environmental demands of the circulatory system, providing new solutions for a variety of biomedical field applications.

Graphical abstract: Magnetic nanoparticle swarm with upstream motility and peritumor blood vessel crossing ability

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 Eka. 2023
Accepted
08 Abu. 2023
First published
10 Abu. 2023

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 14227-14237

Magnetic nanoparticle swarm with upstream motility and peritumor blood vessel crossing ability

L. Wang, C. Gan, H. Sun and L. Feng, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 14227 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR02610H

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