Journal
LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 1868-1875Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3lc41231h
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- Air Force Research Laboratory, BSEM program in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
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To expedite development of any skin wearable material, product, or device, an artificial perspiration (sweat) simulator can provide improved ease, cost, control, flexibility, and reproducibility in comparison to human or animal tests. Reported here is a human perspiration mimicking device including microreplicated skin-texture. A bottom 0.2 mu m track etched polycarbonate membrane layer provides flow-rate control while a top photo-curable layer provides skin-like features such as sweat pore density, hydrophobicity, and wetting hysteresis. Key capabilities of this sweat simulator include: constant 'sweat' rate density without bubble-point variation even down to similar to 1 L h(-1) m(-2); replication of the 2 pores mm(-2) pore-density and the similar to 50 mu m texture of human skin; simple gravity-fed flow control; low-cost and disposable construction.
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