Micellar Polymer Magnetic Microrobots as Efficient Nerve Agent Microcleaners

Marta Pacheco; Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez; Alberto Escarpa; Martin Pumera

doi:10.1021/acsami.2c02926

Micellar Polymer Magnetic Microrobots as Efficient Nerve Agent Microcleaners

Marta Pacheco, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Alberto Escarpa, Martin Pumera

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Abstract

Micro-/nanorobot technology has developed rapidly in recent years due to their great potential to perform multiple tasks. Here, we develop magnetic microrobots prepared as polycaprolactone/Fe₃O₄microspheres covered by micellar polyethyleneimine and use them to efficiently remove a nerve agent from contaminated water. The magnetic polymeric microrobots presented in this work removed around 60% of the nerve agent from water samples in a short time. The attractive performance of these magnetic microrobots offers a very promising approach to large-scale water treatment for environmental remediation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	26128-26134
Number of pages	7
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	14
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c02926
Publication status	Published - 2022 Jun 8

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the project “Advanced Functional Nanorobots” (reg. no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000444 financed by the EFRR). M.Pa. acknowledge the Spanish Ministry of Education (grant no. FPU 16/02211, pre-doctoral fellowship). M.Pa. and A.E. acknowledge financial support by the TRANSNANOAVANSENS program from the Community of Madrid (S2018/NMT-4349) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (CTQ2017-86441- C2-1-R). A.E. acknowledges the financial support by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant PID2020-118154GB-I00).

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