TY - GEN
T1 - Top-down and bottom-up fabrication techniques for hydrogel based sensing and hormone delivery microdevices
AU - Siegel, Ronald A.
AU - Nuxoll, Eric E.
AU - Hillmyer, Marc A.
AU - Ziaie, Babak
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We review a set of studies dealing with molecular (glucose) sensing and hormone delivery, in which the swelling and shrinking of a hydrogel as a function of glucose concentration play a central role. Confining hydrogels in microfabricated structures permits transduction of their chemomechanical behaviors. Prototype microdevices for wireless glucose sensing and closed loop insulin delivery control have been designed using hydrogels containing phenylboronic acid sidechains. While these devices exhibit desired responses, improved response time is needed, warranting further miniaturization. In a separate application, geometric confinement of glucose oxidase by a pH-sensitive hydrogel membrane sets up a nonlinear feedback loop which enables rhythmic swell/shrink cycles when the system is exposed to a constant glucose concentration. The latter system may be applied to delivery of gonadotropin release hormone, for which rhythmicity of secretion is essential for therapeutic function.
AB - We review a set of studies dealing with molecular (glucose) sensing and hormone delivery, in which the swelling and shrinking of a hydrogel as a function of glucose concentration play a central role. Confining hydrogels in microfabricated structures permits transduction of their chemomechanical behaviors. Prototype microdevices for wireless glucose sensing and closed loop insulin delivery control have been designed using hydrogels containing phenylboronic acid sidechains. While these devices exhibit desired responses, improved response time is needed, warranting further miniaturization. In a separate application, geometric confinement of glucose oxidase by a pH-sensitive hydrogel membrane sets up a nonlinear feedback loop which enables rhythmic swell/shrink cycles when the system is exposed to a constant glucose concentration. The latter system may be applied to delivery of gonadotropin release hormone, for which rhythmicity of secretion is essential for therapeutic function.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332511
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332511
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 19963454
AN - SCOPUS:77950987683
SN - 9781424432967
T3 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009
SP - 232
EP - 235
BT - Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009
Y2 - 2 September 2009 through 6 September 2009
ER -