Rational Design and Enhanced Biocompatibility of a Dry Adhesive Medical Skin Patch

Kwak, Moon Kyu; Jeong, Hoon-Eui; Suh, Kahp Y.

Type

Article

Authors

Kwak, Moon Kyu
Jeong, Hoon-Eui
Suh, Kahp Y.

KAUST Grant Number

KUK-F1-037-02

Date

2011-07-28

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Abstract

A new type of medical skin patch is developed that contains high-density, mushroom-like micropillars. Such dry-adhesive micropillars are highly biocompatible, have minimized side effects, and provide reasonable normal adhesion strength. To arrive at optimal conditions for the dry adhesive skin patch, the proper design of various structural and material parameters of micropillars is investigated. Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Citation

Kwak MK, Jeong H-E, Suh KY (2011) Rational Design and Enhanced Biocompatibility of a Dry Adhesive Medical Skin Patch. Advanced Materials 23: 3949–3953. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201101694.

Sponsors

This work was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant (No. 20110017530), WCU (World Class University) program (R31-2008-000-10083-0) on multiscale mechanical design, and Basic Science Research Program (2010-0027955) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST). This work was supported in part by the Award No KUK-F1-037-02, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Institute of Advanced Machinery and Design (IAMD) of Seoul National University.

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal

Advanced Materials

ISSN

0935-9648