Recent advances in microfluidic devices for single-cell cultivation: methods and applications

Dian Anggraini, Nobutoshi Ota, Yigang Shen, Tao Tang, Yo Tanaka, Yoichiroh Hosokawa, Ming Li and Yaxiaer Yalikun

Lab Chip, 2022, 22, 1438
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Recent advancements in physical and chemical MEMS sensors

Yo Tanaka

Analyst, 2024, 149, 3498
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Frontiers in single cell analysis: multimodal technologies and their clinical perspectives

Julia Källberg, Wenjin Xiao, David Van Assche, Jean-Christophe Baret and Valerie Taly

Lab Chip, 2022, 22, 2403
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Development of Microdevices Combining Machine and Life Systems

Yo Tanaka

JRM, 2022, 34, 288
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Biological Soft Robotics

Adam W. Feinberg

Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2015, 17, 243
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Development of Integrated Microfluidic Devices for Next-generation Bioanalysis

Yo TANAKA

Bunseki kagaku, 2017, 66, 487
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A pressure driven electric energy generator exploiting a micro- to nano-scale glass porous filter with ion flow originating from water

Yo Tanaka, Satoshi Amaya, Shun-ichi Funano, Hisashi Sugawa, Wataru Nagafuchi, Yuri Ito, Yusufu Aishan, Xun Liu, Norihiro Kamamichi and Yaxiaer Yalikun

Sci Rep, 2022, 12
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Living Materials Herald a New Era in Soft Robotics

Clement Appiah, Christine Arndt, Katharina Siemsen, Anne Heitmann, Anne Staubitz and Christine Selhuber‐Unkel

Advanced Materials, 2019, 31
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An electric generator using living Torpedo electric organs controlled by fluid pressure-based alternative nervous systems

Yo Tanaka, Shun-ichi Funano, Yohei Nishizawa, Norihiro Kamamichi, Masahiro Nishinaka and Takehiko Kitamori

Sci Rep, 2016, 6
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Microactuators Driven by Smooth Muscle Cells

Yo TANAKA

IEEJ Journal, 2020, 140, 591
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Single cell contractility studies based on compact moiré system over periodic gratings

Xiaoyu Zheng, Howard Surks and Xin Zhang

Applied Physics Letters, 2010, 96
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Fabrication of ultra-thin glass sheets and their application to MEMS devices

Yo Tanaka

ANAL. SCI., 2025, 41, 1221
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Anhydrobiotic chironomid larval motion-based multi-sensing microdevice for the exploration of survivable locations

Yo Tanaka, Doudou Ma, Satoshi Amaya, Yusufu Aishan, Yigang Shen, Shun-ichi Funano, Tao Tang, Yoichiroh Hosokawa, Oleg Gusev, Takashi Okuda, Takahiro Kikawada and Yaxiaer Yalikun

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Biointegrated Micro/Nano‐Robots: Design, Applications, and Future

Jin‐gang Jiang, Yuxuan Huang, Zhiyuan Huang, Qianqian Wang, Jianpeng Sun, Yudong Bao, Xufei Li, Zhonghao Xue and Zhixian Qiu

Small Methods, 2026
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Bio‐Hybrid Cell‐Based Actuators for Microsystems

Rika Wright Carlsen and Metin Sitti

Small, 2014, 10, 3831
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Evaluation systems of generated forces of skeletal muscle cell-based bio-actuators

Kazunori Shimizu, Hideaki Fujita and Eiji Nagamori

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, 2013, 115, 115
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Preface

Tatsuro ENDO and Ryuji YOKOKAWA

IEEJ Journal, 2020, 140, 577
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Development and Future Challenges of Bio-Syncretic Robots

Chuang Zhang, Wenxue Wang, Ning Xi, Yuechao Wang and Lianqing Liu

Engineering, 2018, 4, 452
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Contractile Performance and Controllability of Insect Muscle-Powered Bioactuator with Different Stimulation Strategies for Soft Robotics

Kaoru Uesugi, Koshi Shimizu, Yoshitake Akiyama, Takayuki Hoshino, Kikuo Iwabuchi and Keisuke Morishima

Soft Robotics, 2016, 3, 13
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Biohybrid Actuators Based on Skeletal Muscle-Powered Microgrooved Ultrathin Films Consisting of Poly(styrene-block-butadiene-block-styrene)

Arihiro Hasebe, Yoshitaka Suematsu, Shinji Takeoka, Tommaso Mazzocchi, Lorenzo Vannozzi, Leonardo Ricotti and Toshinori Fujie

ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2019, 5, 5734
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Bio-actuated microvalve in microfluidics using sensing and actuating function of Mimosa pudica

Yusufu Aishan, Shun-ichi Funano, Asako Sato, Yuri Ito, Nobutoshi Ota, Yaxiaer Yalikun and Yo Tanaka

Sci Rep, 2022, 12
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Extension of the beam theory for polymer bio-transducers with low aspect ratios and viscoelastic characteristics

Ping Du, I-Kuan Lin, Hongbing Lu and Xin Zhang

J. Micromech. Microeng., 2010, 20, 095016
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The emerging technology of biohybrid micro-robots: a review

Zening Lin, Tao Jiang and Jianzhong Shang

Bio-des. Manuf., 2022, 5, 107
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Fluid driving system for a micropump by differentiating iPS cells into cardiomyocytes on a tent-like structure

Yo Tanaka and Hideaki Fujita

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2015, 210, 267
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A chemical micropump actuated by self-oscillating polymer gel

Yusufu Aishan, Yaxiaer Yalikun, Yigang Shen, Yapeng Yuan, Satoshi Amaya, Takashi Okutaki, Atsuhito Osaki, Shingo Maeda and Yo Tanaka

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2021, 337, 129769
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A valve powered by earthworm muscle with both electrical and 100% chemical control

Yo Tanaka, Shun-ichi Funano, Yuji Noguchi, Yaxiaer Yalikun and Norihiro Kamamichi

Sci Rep, 2019, 9
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44116-3

Earthworm muscle driven bio-micropump

Yo Tanaka, Yuji Noguchi, Yaxiaer Yalikun and Norihiro Kamamichi

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2017, 242, 1186
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Measuring the Young’s Relaxation Modulus of PDMS Using Stress Relaxation Nanoindentation

Ping Du, Hongbing Lu and Xin Zhang

MRS Proc., 2009, 1222
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