Title
Cloisite Microrobots as Self-Propelling Cleaners for Fast and Efficient Removal of Improvised Organophosphate Nerve Agents
Date Issued
04 September 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Maric T.
Nasir M.Z.M.
Rosli N.F.
Budanović M.
Szökölová K.
Webster R.D.
Sofer Z.
Pumera M.
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
Naturally available microclays are well-known materials with great adsorption capabilities that are available in nature in megatons quantities. On the contrary, artificial nanostructures are often available at high cost via precision manufacturing. Such precision nanomanufacturing is also typically used for fabrication of self-propelled micromotors and nanomachines. Herein, we utilized naturally available Cloisite microclays to fabricate autonomous self-propelled microrobots and demonstrated their excellent performances in pesticide removal due to their excellent adsorption capability. Six different modified Cloisite microrobots were investigated by sputtering their microclays with platinum (Pt) for the fabrication of platinum-Cloisite (Pt-C) microrobots. The obtained microrobots displayed fast velocities (v > 110 μm/s) with fast and efficient enhanced removal of the pesticide fenitrothion, which is also considered as improvised nerve agent. The fabricated Pt-C microrobots exhibited low cytotoxicity even at high concentrations when incubated with human lung carcinoma epithelial cells, which make them safe for human handling.
Start page
31832
End page
31843
Volume
11
Issue
35
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-tecnología
Ingeniería de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85071788805
PubMed ID
Source
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
ISSN of the container
19448244
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by A*STAR grant (No. SERC A1783c0005), Singapore. M.P. acknowledges the financial support of the project Advanced Functional Nanorobots (Reg. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000444 financed by the EFRR) and by specific university research (MSMT No. SVV-20/2019). Z.S. was supported by Czech Science Foundation (GACR No. 17-11456S).
Agency for Science, Technology and Research CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000444, SERC A1783c0005 A*STAR
Grantová Agentura České Republiky GACR No. 17-11456S GA ČR
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