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  1. Dimensions, stability, and deformability of DOPC-cholesterol giant unilamellar vesicles formed by droplet transfer

    Article • Open Research Europe, October 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Stefano Palagi

  2. Dimensions, stability, and deformability of DOPC-cholesterol giant unilamellar vesicles formed by droplet transfer

    Article • Open Research Europe, August 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Stefano Palagi

  3. Fabrication of hydrogel mini-capsules as carrier systems

    Article • Open Research Europe, July 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Stefano Palagi

  4. Dimensions, stability, and deformability of DOPC-cholesterol giant unilamellar vesicles formed by droplet transfer

    Article • Open Research Europe, March 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Stefano Palagi

  5. Infiltration of Cell-Inspired Ultra-Deformable Magnetic Microrobots in Restrictive Environments

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, February 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  6. Fabrication of hydrogel mini-capsules as carrier systems

    Article • Open Research Europe, October 2024, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Stefano Palagi

  7. Evolution of the Microrobots: Stimuli-Responsive Materials and Additive Manufacturing Technologies Turn Small Structures into Microscale Robots

    Article • Micromachines, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Stefano Palagi, Dr Marco Carlotti

  8. Fabrication of hydrogel mini-capsules as carrier systems

    Article • Open Research Europe, November 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Stefano Palagi

  9. Cavitation‐driven Deformable Microchambers Inspired by Fast Microscale Movements of Ferns

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, May 2023, Wiley

    Stefano Palagi

  10. 3D-printed hierarchical arrangements of actuators mimicking biological muscular architectures

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, April 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Stefano Palagi

  11. An earthworm-like modular soft robot for locomotion in multi-terrain environments

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefano Palagi

  12. 3D-printed biomimetic artificial muscles using soft actuators that contract and elongate

    Article • Science Robotics, July 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Stefano Palagi

  13. Direct laser writing of liquid crystal elastomers oriented by a horizontal electric field

    Article • Open Research Europe, November 2021, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Stefano Palagi, Dr Marco Carlotti

  14. How to make 3D printed, tiny actuators made of liquid crystals

    Article • Open Research Europe, October 2021, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Stefano Palagi, Dr Marco Carlotti

  15. Soft Robotic Locomotion by Peristaltic Waves in Granular Media

    Article • May 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  16. Soft Microrobots Based on Photoresponsive Materials

    Article • November 2019, Wiley

    Stefano Palagi

  17. A High-Fidelity Phantom for the Simulation and Quantitative Evaluation of Transurethral Resection of the Prostate

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefano Palagi

  18. Soft Continuous Surface for Micromanipulation driven by Light-controlled Hydrogels

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  19. Light‐Controlled Micromotors and Soft Microrobots

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, May 2019, Wiley

    Stefano Palagi

  20. Gait Learning for Soft Microrobots Controlled by Light Fields

    Article • October 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  21. NANOSCALE ROBOTIC AGENTS IN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS AND TISSUES

    Article • August 2018, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Stefano Palagi

  22. Microrobots are designed by taking inspiration from biological microorganisms

    Article • Nature Reviews Materials, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefano Palagi

  23. Soft Miniaturized Linear Actuators Wirelessly Powered by Rotating Permanent Magnets

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  24. Acoustic Fabrication via the Assembly and Fusion of Particles

    Article • Advanced Materials, December 2017, Wiley

    Stefano Palagi

  25. Wireless Acoustic-Surface Actuators for Miniaturized Endoscopes

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, November 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Stefano Palagi

  26. Acoustic Surfaces: Active Acoustic Surfaces Enable the Propulsion of a Wireless Robot (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 21/2017)

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, November 2017, Wiley

    Stefano Palagi

  27. Active Acoustic Surfaces Enable the Propulsion of a Wireless Robot

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, September 2017, Wiley

    Stefano Palagi

  28. Locomotion of light-driven soft microrobots through a hydrogel via local melting

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  29. Wireless micro-robots for endoscopic applications in urology

    Article • European Urology Supplements, March 2017, Elsevier

    Stefano Palagi

  30. Micro- and nanorobots in Newtonian and biological viscoelastic fluids

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Stefano Palagi

  31. Wireless actuation with functional acoustic surfaces

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, November 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Stefano Palagi

  32. Soft continuous microrobots with multiple intrinsic degrees of freedom

    Article • July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  33. Wireless actuator based on ultrasonic bubble streaming

    Article • July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  34. Auxetic metamaterial simplifies soft robot design

    Article • May 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  35. Towards photo-induced swimming: actuation of liquid crystalline elastomer in water

    Article • April 2016, SPIE

    Stefano Palagi

  36. Soft microrobots (less than 1 mm) swim like microorganisms

    Article • Nature Materials, February 2016, Nature

    Stefano Palagi

  37. 3D-printed soft microrobot for swimming in biological fluids

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  38. Navigation of Magnetic Microrobots With Different User Interaction Levels

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, July 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  39. A Power-Efficient Propulsion Method for Magnetic Microrobots

    Article • International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Stefano Palagi

  40. Propulsion of swimming microrobots inspired by metachronal waves in ciliates: from biology to material specifications

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, October 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Stefano Palagi

  41. How does buoyancy of hydrogel microrobots affect their magnetic propulsion in liquids?

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, March 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Stefano Palagi

  42. Bioinspired Design and Energetic Feasibility of an Autonomous Swimming Microrobot

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesco Greco, Stefano Palagi

  43. Modeling of a propulsion mechanism for swimming microrobots inspired by ciliate metachronal waves

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  44. Wireless swimming microrobots: Design and development of a 2 DoF magnetic-based system

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  45. Design and development of a soft magnetically-propelled swimming microrobot

    Article • May 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefano Palagi

  46. Novel Smart Concepts for Designing Swimming Soft Microrobots

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2011, Elsevier

    Stefano Palagi

  47. Controlled Magnetic Propulsion of Floating Polymeric Two-Dimensional Nano-Objects

    Article • Advanced Robotics, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Stefano Palagi

  48. Magnetic Nanofilms for Biomedical Applications

    Article • Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, January 2010, ASME International

    Stefano Palagi