Strategies for drug-delivery and chemical sensing using biomédical microrobots

Author

Pané, Salvador ; Ergeneman, Olgaç ; Sivaraman, Karthik M. ; Lühmann, Tessa ; Hall, Heike ; Nelson, Bradley J.

Author_Institution

Multi-Scale Robot. Lab., ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

fYear

2010

fDate

5-9 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

152

Abstract

We present the state-of-the-art and future strategies for magnetic materials and functional coatings for biomedical microrobots. Coatings for sensing chemicals and for drug-delivery as well as ways of implementing them are being investigated. Two examples related to intraocular microrobots are shown in this work: a luminescence polymer-dye composite coating for the detection of intraocular oxygen; and a conductive polymer coating for drug delivery purposes.

Keywords

chemical sensors; coatings; composite materials; conducting polymers; drug delivery systems; drugs; functionally graded materials; luminescence; magnetic materials; medical robotics; microrobots; polymer films; biomedical microrobots; chemical sensing; conductive polymer coating; drug delivery; functional coatings; intraocular microrobots; intraocular oxygen; luminescence polymer-dye composite coating; magnetic materials; Conferences;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (NANOMED), 2010 IEEE 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong/Macau

ISSN

2159-6964

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-152-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANOMED.2010.5749823

Filename

5749823