Gao, Wei and Wang, Joseph (2014) The Environmental Impact of Micro/Nanomachines: A Review. ACS Nano, 8 (4). pp. 3170-3180. ISSN 1936-0851. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180123-082310995
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Abstract
Environmental sustainability represents a major challenge facing our world. Recent advances in synthetic micro/nanomachines have opened new horizons for addressing environmental problems. This review article highlights the opportunities and challenges in translating the remarkable progresses in nanomotor technology toward practical environmental applications. It covers various environmental areas that would benefit from these developments, including nanomachine-enabled degradation and removal of major contaminants or nanomotor-based water quality monitoring. Future operations of autonomous intelligent multifunctional nanomachines, monitoring and responding to hazardous chemicals (in a “sense and destroy” mode) and using bioinspired chemotactic search strategies to trace chemical plumes to their source, are discussed, along with the challenges of moving these exciting research efforts to larger-scale pilot studies and eventually to field applications. With continuous innovations, we expect that man-made nano/microscale motors will have profound impact upon the environment.
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Additional Information: | © 2014 American Chemical Society. Received 6 January 2014. Date accepted 7 March 2014. Published online 7 March 2014. Published in print 22 April 2014. This project received support from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency–Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (Grant No. HDTRA1-13-1-0002). W.G. is a HHMI International Student Research fellow. The authors declare no competing financial interest. | ||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | artificial microfish; chemotaxis; decontamination; environmental monitoring; microengines; nanomachines; nanomotors; nanoremediation | ||||||||||||
Issue or Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20180123-082310995 | ||||||||||||
Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180123-082310995 | ||||||||||||
Official Citation: | The Environmental Impact of Micro/Nanomachines: A Review Wei Gao and Joseph Wang ACS Nano 2014 8 (4), 3170-3180 DOI: 10.1021/nn500077a | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Ruth Sustaita | ||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 31 Jan 2018 19:45 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2020 13:18 |
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