Premium
Advances in the Design of Transdermal Microneedles for Diagnostic and Monitoring Applications
Author(s) -
Babity Samuel,
Roohnikan Mahdi,
Brambilla Davide
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201803186
Subject(s) - transdermal , nanotechnology , materials science , systems engineering , medical physics , engineering ethics , biomedical engineering , medicine , engineering , pharmacology
Due to their intrinsic advantages over classical hypodermic needles, microneedles have received much attention over the last two decades and will likely soon appear in clinics. Although the vast majority of research is focused on designing microneedles for the painless delivery of drugs, their applications for diagnostic purposes have also provided promising results. In this paper, the main advances in the field of microneedles for diagnostic and patient monitoring purposes are introduced and critically discussed.