Seminar talk: Magnetic Nanoparticle Swarm for Active Delivery by Dr. Li Zhang
Abstract
In nature, various types of swarm behaviors occur, such as a flock of birds and a swarm of ants, which stem from local communications of limited individuals. Through collective pattern formation and reconfiguration, these animals dramatically change their swarming patterns according to the environment they interact with. To date, some large-scale robotic systems can well mimic the complex swarm behaviors of natural creatures through algorithm design and wireless communication (Science, Vol. 345, 795–799, 2014). However, due to the absence of onboard processors, sensors and actuators, to create a robotic system with functional swarm behaviors at small scales remains challenging.
Recently, my group has developed a strategy that selects the optimized magnetic nanoparticle swarms (MNS) in different biofluids, such as blood and vitreous humor (Nature Communications, 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13576). The swarms reported may have great potential in medical applications, and this work is an essential intermediate step from the fundamental understanding of nanorobotic swarms to their clinic applications.
In this lecture, I will present the recent research progress on the design and development of MNS from the following three aspects: (i) controlled generation of reconfigurable swarming pattern; (ii) motion control of the MNS in varied fluids; (iii) the perspective of the MNS for biomedical applications.
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- Date: 21 Sep 2021
- Time: 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM
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- Starts 01 September 2021 06:15 AM
- Ends 20 September 2021 06:15 PM
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Dr. Li Zhang of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Magnetic Nanoparticle Swarm for Active Delivery
Biography:
Li Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE) and a Professor by Courtesy at the Department of Surgery at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also a director of the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - CUHK Joint Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Dr. Zhang received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Basel, Switzerland. During his PhD research, he was also with the Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology (LMN), Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Before he joined CUHK as an Assistant Professor, he worked in Prof. Bradley Nelson’s group as a postdoc and then as a senior scientist and lecturer in the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.
Dr. Zhang's primary research interests include milli-/micro-/nanorobotics and their biomedical applications. Dr. Zhang is a senior member of IEEE, who has won several awards or in the Finalist from IEEE international conferences, including ICRA, IROS, CASE, ROBIO, ARM, and NANOMED. He has authored and co-authored over 200 papers, including Science Robotics, Nature Machine Intelligence (News & Views), Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, AFM, TRO, IJRR, SoRo, Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, as the corresponding author. He won the Hong Kong Research Grants Committee (RGC) Early Career Award in 2013, CUHK Young Researcher Award 2017, United College Early Career Research Excellence Merit Award 2018, CUHK Research Excellence Award 2019-20, and RGC Research Fellowship Award 2021/22. He currently serves as Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of several top-tier journals, such as IEEE TRO, IEEE/ASME T-MECH, IEEE T-ASE, etc. Dr. Zhang is a Distinguished Lecturer appointed by IEEE NTC twice.
Agenda
We will plan for a 50 min presentation and a 10 min Q&A session.