Wearable porous PDMS layer of high moisture permeability for skin trouble reduction
The present research proposes the present porous polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer for the skin trouble reduced daily life skin attachable devices. The present research proposes the new pores forming method in the PDMS by crystallization and dissolution of the citric acid in the PDMS for fabricating...
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Published in | Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 938 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
England
Nature Publishing Group
13.01.2021
Nature Publishing Group UK Nature Portfolio |
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Summary: | The present research proposes the present porous polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer for the skin trouble reduced daily life skin attachable devices. The present research proposes the new pores forming method in the PDMS by crystallization and dissolution of the citric acid in the PDMS for fabricating high uniform and small size pores. The present porous PDMS layer (i) decreases the pore size 93.2%p and increases the pore size uniformity 425%p compared to the conventional porous PDMS layer of mixing sugars and PDMS; (ii) is able to be fabricated in the thickness of 21-101 µm by spin-coating; (iii) has the 2.2 times higher water vapor transmission rate (947 ± 10.8 g/day•m
) compared to the human skin water vapor transmission rate. The present porous PDMS layer reduces the skin trouble effectively by having the high water vapor permeability, therefore is applicable to the human daily-life skin attachable devices. |
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ISSN: | 2045-2322 2045-2322 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-78580-z |