MEMS-based Transdermal Drug Delivery [Hardcover]

This book introduces transdermal drug delivery and developments in transdermal drug delivery techniques including system level design approach of a novel miniaturized medical device to offer precise and painless drug delivery via a skin-based transdermal route. It discusses the MEMS- based fabrication technique and related aspects.

Richa Mishra is an Assistant Professor in Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, India.

Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya holds the prestigious position of Institute Chair Professor at IIT Kharagpur.

1 Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems. 2 At the bottom  Microfluidics and Scaling Laws.  3 Microneedles  New tools of painless interface to skin.  4 Miniaturization using microfabrication techniques.  5 Design and simulation of microneedles.  6 Fabrication and characterization of hollow Polymer microneedles.  7 C-MEMS process-based post fabrication and strength enhancement of microneedles.  8 Micropumps for drug delivery.  9 Piezoelectric Actuator-based Micropumps.  10 Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Actuators for micropumps.  11 Microneedle and IPMC micropump integrated drug delivery system

This book introduces transdermal drug delivery and the developments that have taken place in various transdermal drug delivery techniques including the system-level design approach of a novel miniaturized medical device to offer precise and painless drug delivery via a skin-based transdermal route. It discusses the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based fabrication technique and the design, fabrication and characterization of different MEMS-based components like microneedles and micropumps. It further includes a MEMS-based component micropump with design, analysis, fabrication and characterizatiolÓE