Out-of-plane, high strength, polymer microneedles for transdermal drug delivery

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3680-3683

  Chaudhri, Buddhadev Paul ^a,b   Ceyssens, F ^b   Neves, H Pereira ^a   Manna, A La ^a   Van Hoof, C ^a,b   Puers, R ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR GEL; ANISOTROPIC ETCH; APPLIED FORCES; CRITICAL LOAD; CRITICAL LOADING; FABRICATION PROCESS; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HIGH STRENGTH; HUMAN SKIN; INSERTION FORCE; MICROFLUIDIC DELIVERY; MICRONEEDLES; OUT-OF-PLANE; SKIN PENETRATION; TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES;

ASPECT RATIO; DRUG DELIVERY; SAFETY FACTOR; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS;

NEEDLES;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; NEEDLE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEEDLES; POLYMERS;

EID: 84863578185     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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