Single-step fabrication of computationally designed microneedles by continuous liquid interface production

AR Johnson, CL Caudill, JR Tumbleston… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Microneedles, arrays of micron-sized needles that painlessly puncture the skin, enable
transdermal delivery of medications that are difficult to deliver using more traditional routes …

Rapidly separating microneedles for transdermal drug delivery

DD Zhu, QL Wang, XB Liu, XD Guo - Acta biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
The applications of polymer microneedles (MNs) into human skin emerged as an alternative
of the conventional hypodermic needles. However, dissolving MNs require many minutes to …

Flexible and stretchable microneedle patches with integrated rigid stainless steel microneedles for transdermal biointerfacing

M Rajabi, N Roxhed, RZ Shafagh, T Haraldson… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
This paper demonstrates flexible and stretchable microneedle patches that combine soft and
flexible base substrates with hard and sharp stainless steel microneedles. An elastomeric …

Microneedles with controlled bubble sizes and drug distributions for efficient transdermal drug delivery

QL Wang, DD Zhu, XB Liu, BZ Chen, XD Guo - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Drug loaded dissolving microneedles (DMNs) fabricated with water soluble polymers have
received increasing attentions as a safe and efficient transdermal drug delivery system …

Light induced DEP for immobilizing and orienting Escherichia coli bacteria

L Miccio, V Marchesano, M Mugnano, S Grilli… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Manipulating bacteria and understanding their behavior when interacting with different
substrates are of fundamental importance for patterning, detection, and any other topics …

Optically monitored drug delivery patch based on porous silicon and polymer microneedles

P Dardano, A Caliò, J Politi, I Rea, I Rendina… - Biomedical optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Fabrication and characterization of an optically monitored hybrid patch for local
administration of drugs, based on polymeric micro-needles and a porous silicon free …

Room temperature consolidation of a porous poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) matrix by the addition of maltose to the water-in-oil emulsion

E Esposito, F Ruggiero, R Vecchione, PA Netti - Materials, 2016 - mdpi.com
In composite materials made of polymer matrices and micro-nano dispersed compartments,
the morphology of the dispersed phase can strongly affect several features of the final …

Pyro-EHD ink-jet printing for direct functionalization of 3D lab-on-chip devices

S Coppola, V Vespini, V Bianco… - Microfluidics …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A challenging request in the fabrication of microfluidics and biomedical microsystems is a
flexible ink-jet printing for breaking the rigidity of classical lithography. A pyroelectric-EHD …

Membrane filtration: An unconventional route for fabrication of the flexible and dissolvable, polymer microneedle patches

YJ Juang, YL Deng, I Lee - Biomicrofluidics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Utilization of dissolvable, polymer microneedles (MNs) for transdermal drug delivery offers
many advantages such as being painless to patients, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and …

[PDF][PDF] Multipurpose Platform Based on LiNbO3 Crystals for Novel Scenarios in Soft Matter Manipulation

G Mensitieri, L Mecozzi, P Ferraro - 2016 - core.ac.uk
The many-sidedness of Soft Matter is the key factor that enables this materials class to
generate a strong increasing attention in the international scientific research community …