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posted on 2022-05-25, 14:07 authored by Marta Pacheco, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Alberto Escarpa, Martin PumeraMicro-/nanorobot
technology has developed rapidly in recent years
due to their great potential to perform multiple tasks. Here, we develop
magnetic microrobots prepared as polycaprolactone/Fe3O4 microspheres covered by micellar polyethyleneimine and use
them to efficiently remove a nerve agent from contaminated water.
The magnetic polymeric microrobots presented in this work removed
around 60% of the nerve agent from water samples in a short time.
The attractive performance of these magnetic microrobots offers a
very promising approach to large-scale water treatment for environmental
remediation.
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