Modelling insertion behaviour of PVP (Polyvinylpyrrolidone) and PVA (Polyvinyl Alcohol) microneedles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A comprehensive investigation into the effects of nonlinear material behaviour of polymeric (MN) and skin on the dynamics of the MN insertion in skin was undertaken in this study using experiments and numerical simulations. The nonlinearity of the material behaviour was incorporated by employing the Ramberg-Osgood and neo-Hookean equations for stress-strain relationships for the MN materials and skin, respectively. For this purpose, a characteristic type of dissolving MN array was selected. This type of MN is made by a combination of poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone). The numerical simulations were validated using experimental investigations where the MNs were fabricated using laser-engineered silicone micromould templates technology. Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, and compression breaking force for the MN polymers were determined using a texture analyser. The alignment between experimental findings and simulation data underscores the accuracy of the parameters determined through mechanical testing and mathematical calculations for both MN materials (PVP/PVA) and skin behaviour during the MN insertion. This study has demonstrated a strong alignment between the experimental findings and computational simulations, confirming the accuracy of the established parameters for MNs and skin interactions for modelling MN insertion behaviour in skin, providing a solid foundation for future research in this area.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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