Microrobots for minimally invasive medicine

BJ Nelson, IK Kaliakatsos… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Microrobots have the potential to revolutionize many aspects of medicine. These untethered,
wirelessly controlled and powered devices will make existing therapeutic and diagnostic …

Use of microneedle array devices for continuous glucose monitoring: a review

A El-Laboudi, NS Oliver, A Cass… - Diabetes technology & …, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Microneedle array devices provide the opportunity to overcome the barrier characteristics of
the outermost skin layer, the stratum corneum. This novel technology can be used as a …

Minimally‐invasive microneedle‐based biosensor array for simultaneous lactate and glucose monitoring in artificial interstitial fluid

P Bollella, S Sharma, AEG Cass, R Antiochia - Electroanalysis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Here we report the first mediated pain free microneedle‐based biosensor array for the
continuous and simultaneous monitoring of lactate and glucose in artificial interstitial fluid …

Additive manufacturing of honeybee-inspired microneedle for easy skin insertion and difficult removal

Z Chen, Y Lin, W Lee, L Ren, B Liu… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
With natural evolution, honeybee stinger with microbarbs can easily penetrate and trap in
the skin of hostile animals to inject venom for self-defense. We proposed a novel three …

Micromilling of microbarbs for medical implants

S Filiz, L Xie, LE Weiss, OB Ozdoganlar - International Journal of Machine …, 2008 - Elsevier
Successful application of many implantable medical devices often depends on the
technique used for attaching the devices to living tissue. Although mechanical attachment …

A novel microactuator for microbiopsy in capsular endoscopes

S Park, K Koo, SM Bang, JY Park… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a LiGA (a German acronym for lithographie, galvanoformung,
abformung) process based microactuator to be used for microbiopsy in capsular …

Anisotropic etching of SiC whiskers

GZ Cambaz, GN Yushin, Y Gogotsi, VG Lutsenko - Nano letters, 2006 - ACS Publications
We have demonstrated a method of producing nanoplatelets or complex well-ordered
nanostructures from silicon carbide (SiC) whiskers. Preferential etching of SiC whiskers in a …

Developing barbed microtip-based electrode arrays for biopotential measurement

LS Hsu, SW Tung, CH Kuo, YJ Yang - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
This study involved fabricating barbed microtip-based electrode arrays by using silicon wet
etching. KOH anisotropic wet etching was employed to form a standard pyramidal microtip …

The hyperelastic and failure behaviors of skin in relation to the dynamic application of microscopic penetrators in a murine model

SC Meliga, JW Coffey, ML Crichton, C Flaim, M Veidt… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
In-depth understanding of skin elastic and rupture behavior is fundamental to enable next-
generation biomedical devices to directly access areas rich in cells and biomolecules …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiopsy engineered for minimally invasive and suture-free sub-millimetre skin sampling

LL Lin, TW Prow, AP Raphael, RL Harrold III… - …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We describe the development of a sub-millimetre skin punch biopsy device for minimally
invasive and suture-free skin sampling for molecular diagnosis and research. Conventional …