School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, P. R. China.
Chem Soc Rev. 2020 May 21;49(10):3211-3230. doi: 10.1039/c9cs00877b. Epub 2020 Apr 20.
The coordinated behaviors of living organisms in nature have inspired the design of artificial micro/nanomachines that mimics biological methods of group motion and responses to the environment. Designing and developing the coordinated behavior of micro/nanomachines will bring benefits of synchronized operation, multitasking, and adaptability to a wide spectrum of environments. Similar to macroscale organization in biological systems, we can postulate that interactions between neighbors follow simple rules and that their capabilities to sense and respond to the environment matters for achieving coordinated behavior among micro/nanomachines. In this review, we focus on the efforts made toward the coordinated behavior of micro/nanomachines from both individual-individual and individual-environment interactions. The possible interactions that might be useful to induce coordinated behavior among micro/nanomachines are categorized and illustrated. By highlighting the progress toward designing and studying these interactions, we anticipate insight into the design of artificial micro/nanomachines capable of behaving in a coordinated manner.
生物体的协调行为激发了人工微/纳米机器的设计灵感，这些机器模仿了生物群体运动和对环境响应的方法。设计和开发微/纳米机器的协调行为将带来同步操作、多任务处理和对广泛环境适应性的好处。类似于生物系统中的宏观组织，我们可以假设，邻居之间的相互作用遵循简单的规则，它们感知和响应环境的能力对于实现微/纳米机器之间的协调行为至关重要。在这篇综述中，我们重点介绍了从个体-个体和个体-环境相互作用两个方面实现微/纳米机器协调行为的努力。对可能有助于诱导微/纳米机器之间协调行为的相互作用进行了分类和说明。通过突出设计和研究这些相互作用的进展，我们期望深入了解设计能够以协调方式行为的人工微/纳米机器。
