Issue 7, 2018

Micromotors for environmental applications: a review

Abstract

Self-propelled micromotors represent a new paradigm in the environmental field, greatly enhancing the efficiency of traditional operations due to the actively moving matter phenomena. This review highlights current opportunities and challenges in the use of micromotors for enhancing pollutant degradation and removal, accelerating bacterial killing or enabling dynamic environmental monitoring. Such studies exemplify the wide range of potential environmental applications of dynamic micromachines associated with their continuous motion, force and functionality. We will conclude with the challenges of moving these exciting advances from the bench scale to larger-scale field applications.

Graphical abstract: Micromotors for environmental applications: a review

Article information

Article type
Frontier
Submitted
14 mar 2018
Accepted
16 mai 2018
First published
18 mai 2018

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2018,5, 1530-1544

Author version available

Micromotors for environmental applications: a review

B. Jurado-Sánchez and J. Wang, Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2018, 5, 1530 DOI: 10.1039/C8EN00299A

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