Smart Nano-Bio-Devices

Our recent work where we use magnetotactic bacteria powered bio-hybrid motors to target E. coli biofilms that are typically resistant to anti-biotics, appeared in ACS Nano.

Magnetotactic Bacteria Powered Biohybrids Target E. coli Biofilms Magnetotactic Bacteria Powered Biohybrids Target E. coli Biofilms

ACS highlights our work on killing pathogenic bacteria using microbots!
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2017/acs-presspac-june-28-2017/swimming-microbots-can-remove-pathogenic-bacteria-from-water-video.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N87QAdqNE3M - Video link

Swimming microbots can remove pathogenic bacteria from water (video) - American Chemical Society American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.

We were recently invited by the journal 'Accounts of Chemical Research' to write an overview of the research carried out in our lab. We also made the cover of the January 2017 issue (image below)!
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00386 (Open Access)

Designing Micro- and Nanoswimmers for Specific Applications - Accounts of Chemical Research (ACS Publications) Designing Micro- and Nanoswimmers for Specific ApplicationsJaideep Katuri†‡, Xing Ma‡§, Morgan M. Stanton‡, and Samuel Sánchez*†‡∥ †Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Baldiri i Reixac 10-12, 08028 Barcelona, Spain‡Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Heisenbergstr. 3, D-70569...