Optoelectronic-tweezer micromanipulation and magnetically controlled micronanorobot
【Abstract】
Cancer is a major problem in the history of human diseases that has not yet been conquered, according to the 2020 China Tumor Registry Annual Report, the number of cancer patients in China has exceeded ten million, and the number of new patients is nearly 4.8 million per year, accounting for about 1/4 of the worlds population. chemotherapy is still the commonly used method, but the side effects of chemotherapy cause great pain to the patients. According to the statistics, the effective utilization rate of targeted drugs is still less than 5 per thousand, and the rapid development of micro-nano technology and material science has provided mankind with a lot of new microscopic means of solving the problem, among which micro-nano robots have been expected to be used for in vivo drug delivery and cellular microsurgery analysis since the end of the last century. Micro-nano robots make full use of micro-nano manufacturing and control technology to give new meaning to robots, which has attracted much attention from the world. Especially in the field of biomedicine, drug-carrying micro-nano robots have unlimited application potential, which will inevitably cause new changes in precision medicine, targeted drugs and other technologies. The use of micro-nanorobotics control technology will be an effective solution to a series of problems such as low utilization of traditional chemotherapeutic drugs and targeted drugs, intolerance of the human body, large side effects, etc., and the combination of immunotherapy is expected to become a new science and technology that overturns the traditional therapeutic program. We provide smarter and more efficient solutions for tumor treatment by utilizing optoelectronic tweezers non-contact manipulation technology and micro-nano-robotic technology, among others.
Feng Lin is a professor and doctoral supervisor under the "Excellence Hundred Plan" of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA). He is a National Young Changjiang Scholar, a recipient of the Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, and a Beijing Rising Star in Science and Technology. He was selected as a 2011 Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) Outstanding Young Scholar, a 2013 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Scholar, and a 2020 Director of the International Committee on Micro and Nano Robotics of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Currently, he serves as Editor of Bio-Design and Manufacturing, Cyborg and Bionic Systems, and Director of Micro and Nano Robotics Branch and Micro and Nano Operators and Actuators Branch of Chinese Society of Micro and Nanotechnology. He has served as an editorial board member and session chair of the international robotics conferences IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). He has published 150 papers in SCI/EI journals such as International Journal of Robotics Research, Small, Research, Lab on a chip, etc. He has published the textbook "Introduction to Micro and Nano Robotics" and 4 English monographs.
馮林,北京航空航天大學教授,博士生導師,北京市杰出青年科學基金獲得者,北京市科技新星。入選2011年日本機械工程師學會優秀年輕學者、2013年日本學術振興會(JSPS)學者、2020年電氣電子工程師學會(IEEE)國際微納米機器人技術委員會理事。目前擔任Bio-Design and Manufacturing、Cyborg and Bionic Systems編輯,中國微米納米技術學會微納機器人分會、微納操作器與執行器分會理事。曾任國際機器人會議IEEE機器人和自動化國際會議(ICRA)、智能機器人與系統國際會議(IROS)的編委、分會主席。在International Journal of Robotics Research、Small、Research、Lab on a chip等期發表論文SCI/EI 期刊150篇,出版教材《微納米機器人概論》及英文專著共4部。
Gilgueng Hwang
東京大學
On-chip Micro/nanorobotic Swimmers for Biomedical Applications
【ABSTRACT】
Untethered micro/nanorobotic swimmers are promising tools towards biologic or biomedical applications thanks to their highly accessible feature to tiny lumens. However fundamental challenges in design, fabrication due to low Reynolds number physics have limited such applications. We combined multidisciplinary technologies in micro/nanofabrication, microfluidics and robotics to those challenges. We recently developed highly energy efficient and fully controllable on-chip magnetic micro/nanorobotic swimmers with remote controlled functions such as cargo transport and sensing. I will introduce our recently developed micro and nanorobotic swimmers which can serve as on-chip mobile micromanipulators or physical sensors in microfluidic environments. The presentation will be concluded by discussing ongoing and future perspectives toward biomedical applications.
Dr. Gilgueng Hwang received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002, 2005, and 2008. He spent 2 years in ETH Zurich, Switzerland as an academic guest for a collaborative research project. Then he worked as a postdoc for 2 years in ISIR, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. From 2010, he has been working as a CNRS research scientist (Chargé de Recherche) in C2N, Paris-Saclay University, Palaiseau, France. After working as a VDEC D2T project associate professor at the University of Tokyo in 2019, he is currently affected to LIMMS-CNRS, The University of Tokyo, Japan which is an international joint research laboratory between the University of Tokyo and CNRS. His research interest covers 3D/4D MEMS, micro/nanofabrication, micro/nanorobotics, micro/nanofluidics, lab-on-a-chip, artificial organs, organ-on-chip, in-situ SEM characterization, nanomanipulation.
Vascularized Micro-organ-on-a-chip based on Microenvironment Control inside Microfluidic platforms
【ABSTRACT】
The vascular network of the circulatory system plays a vital role in maintaining homeostasis in the human body. We currently developed a novel modular microfluidic system with a vertical two-layered configuration to generate large-scale perfused microvascular networks in vitro. The two-layer PDMS configuration allows the tissue chambers and medium channels not only to be designed and fabricated independently but also to be aligned and bonded accordingly. This method can produce a modular microfluidic system that has high flexibility and scalability to design an integrated platform with multiple perfused vascularized tissues with high densities. The medium channel was designed with a rhombic shape and fabricated to be semi-closed to form a capillary burst valve in the vertical direction, serving as the interface between the medium channels and tissue chambers. Angiogenesis and anastomosis at the vertical interface were successfully achieved by using different combinations of tissue chambers and medium channels. Various large-scale microvascular networks were generated and quantified in terms of vessel length and density. Minimal leakage of the perfused dextran confirmed the lumenization of the microvascular networks and the formation of tight vertical interconnections between the microvascular networks and medium channels in different structural layers. This platform enables the culturing of interconnected, large-scale perfused vascularized tissue networks with high density and scalability for a wide range of multi-organ-on-a-chip applications, including basic biological studies and drug screening.
Tao Yue is an Associate Professor in School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University. He received the B.S. degree and M.S. degree from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in 2007 and 2010 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2014. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Ohio State University and University of California, Irvine in US from 2014 to 2018, funded by NSF and NIH. His research interests include Micro/nano robotics, Microfluidic devices and Bio-mems technologies. Prof. Yue has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Science Advances, Nano Energy, Advanced Science and Lab on a chip. He has given 20 presentations in international conferences (IEEE ICRA, IROS and MicroTAS). He received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Human Science in 2013 and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter Young Award in 2014. He was awarded with Shanghai Young Oriental Scholar in 2017, Shanghai Science and Technology Committee Rising-Star Program in 2019 and Second Prize of Award for Technological Invention of Shanghai in 2022.