A New Concept of a Drug Delivery System with Improved Precision and Patient Safety Features

This paper presents a novel dosing concept for drug delivery based on a peristaltic piezo-electrically actuated micro membrane pump. The design of the silicon micropump itself is straight-forward, using two piezoelectrically actuated membrane valves as inlet and outlet, and a pump chamber with a pie...

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Main Authors: Florian Thoma, Frank Goldschmidtböing, Peter Woias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-12-01
Series:Micromachines
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/6/1/80