High-resolution two-photon polymerization: The most versatile technique for the fabrication of microneedle arrays

Z Faraji Rad, PD Prewett, GJ Davies - Microsystems & nanoengineering, 2021 - nature.com
Microneedle patches have received much interest in the last two decades as drug/vaccine
delivery or fluid sampling systems for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. Microneedles are …

3D printing of functional microrobots

J Li, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototyping”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

Two‐photon polymerization: fundamentals, materials, and chemical modification strategies

S O'Halloran, A Pandit, A Heise, A Kellett - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐photon polymerization (TPP) has become a premier state‐of‐the‐art method for
microscale fabrication of bespoke polymeric devices and surfaces. With applications ranging …

Emerging 4D printing strategies for next‐generation tissue regeneration and medical devices

Y Wang, H Cui, T Esworthy, D Mei, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of 3D printing has led to considerable progress in the field of
biomedical engineering. Notably, 4D printing provides a potential strategy to achieve a time …

Polymers for 3D printing and customized additive manufacturing

SC Ligon, R Liska, J Stampfl, M Gurr… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Additive manufacturing (AM) alias 3D printing translates computer-aided design (CAD)
virtual 3D models into physical objects. By digital slicing of CAD, 3D scan, or tomography …

The role of 3D printing technology in microengineering of microneedles

U Detamornrat, E McAlister, ARJ Hutton, E Larrañeta… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microneedles (MNs) are minimally invasive devices, which have gained extensive interest
over the past decades in various fields including drug delivery, disease diagnosis …

Hollow microneedles: A perspective in biomedical applications

Á Cárcamo-Martínez, B Mallon… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microneedles (MN) have the potential to become a highly progressive device for both drug
delivery and monitoring purposes as they penetrate the skin and pierce the stratum corneum …

The upcoming 3D-printing revolution in microfluidics

N Bhattacharjee, A Urrios, S Kang, A Folch - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last two decades, the vast majority of microfluidic systems have been built in poly
(dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) by soft lithography, a technique based on PDMS micromolding. A …

[HTML][HTML] Microneedle arrays as transdermal and intradermal drug delivery systems: Materials science, manufacture and commercial development

E Larrañeta, REM Lutton, AD Woolfson… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Transdermal drug delivery offers a number of advantages for the patient, due not only its non-
invasive and convenient nature, but also factors such as avoidance of first pass metabolism …

3D‐printed microfluidics

AK Au, W Huynh, LF Horowitz… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of soft lithography allowed for an unprecedented expansion in the field of
microfluidics. However, the vast majority of PDMS microfluidic devices are still made with …