Soft, Degradable, and Magnetic Microcarriers for Encapsulation and Guided Transport of Drugs and 3D Spheroids
Xuan Peng, Lulu Song, Daryna Mruga, Veronika Bakhmat, Sergei Dzyadevych, Lin Guo, Shahrukh Shakeel, Rico Illing, Olha Bezsmertna, Xiaotao Wang, Nicholas R. Posselli, Sarthak Misra, Sandra Hauser, Jens Pietzsch, Klaus Kopka, Denys Makarov, Željko Janićijević, Xinne Zhao, Larysa Baraban · 2026
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Xuan Peng leads a nineteen-author team introducing soft hydrogel microcarriers that can ferry drugs and living cell spheroids together, steer them with magnets, then dissolve away on schedule. Earlier microcarriers could not combine controlled breakdown, mixed cargo, long-term friendliness to tissue, and scalable manufacture. The new carriers are made by droplet microfluidics and light-curing, forming discrete soft beads tuned to degrade under body-like conditions.
Magnetic particles ride inside alongside medicines and three-dimensional cell clusters, and external magnetic gradients walk the carriers along complex paths with precision. Tunable breakdown gives the system a planned lifecycle: stable while navigating, then clearing safely once the job is done. The authors pitch the platform for tissue engineering, minimally invasive therapy, and diagnostic monitoring where cargo must arrive at a chosen spot and time.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xuan Peng, Lulu Song, Daryna Mruga, Veronika Bakhmat, Sergei Dzyadevych, Lin Guo, Shahrukh Shakeel, Rico Illing, Olha Bezsmertna, Xiaotao Wang, Nicholas R. Posselli, Sarthak Misra, Sandra Hauser, Jens Pietzsch, Klaus Kopka, Denys Makarov, Željko Janićijević, Xinne Zhao, Larysa Baraban |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48807 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |