Micro- and nanomotors are tiny self-propelled devices that move on their own, powered by light or by chemical reactions. We design them as an active platform for medicine: to carry drugs past the body's barriers and to detect molecules where they are.
Therapy
Skin & wound therapy
Micromotors combined with microneedles that deliver drugs locally into chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers and break down bacterial biofilms.
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Nose-to-brain drug delivery
Micromotor-assisted transport along the nasal route, carrying drugs across biological barriers to the brain without injections.
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Oral drug delivery
Self-propelled microdevices and enteric microneedles that push through intestinal mucus to make oral drug delivery more effective.
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SERS sensing
Active micromotors that double as SERS sensors, detecting drugs and biomarkers by their molecular fingerprints, building on world-leading SERS expertise with Prof. Anja Boisen.
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