Fully loaded micromotors for combinatorial delivery and autonomous release of cargoes.

Integrating functional self-propelled Zinc micromotors are created by coup-ling electrodeposition with hard dual-templating synthesis. The micromotors concurrently possess four robust functions including a remarkably high loading capacity, combinatorial delivery of cargoes, autonomous release of encapsulated payloads, and self-destruction. This concept could be expanded to simultaneous encapsulation of various payloads for different functionalities such as therapy, diagnostics, and imaging.

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