Abstract
Microneedle has made excellent contribution in the era of biomedical sector. This paper presents a reservoir-based out-of-plane silicon carbide (SiC) microneedle which has two lumens for delivering drug. The total height of the designed microneedle is 451µm where the conical tip area is about 69.39 µm2. The additional part of this microneedle is a reservoir which is trapezium in shape having a height of 150µm. This work use COMSOL Multiphysics software for the structural analysis and Ansys Workbench software to investigate the fluid analysis. The flow analyses are performed by releasing drugs from the reservoir where different viscosity based sample drugs are included. Although reservoir-based microneedles are existing, however, there is no system to control the fluid in those microneedles. Thus, this work proposes a controllable microneedle which able to control the drug flow by using a valve. For both the case of valveless and with a valve, the drug velocities are determined. As paracetamol has highest viscosity among other drugs, it provides lowest velocities. Conversely, the flow of aspirin shows high velocity of 6.51E-2m/s without a valve and 4.26E-2m/s with a valve. To analyze the skin insertion performance, a skin model including six layers is designed. The simulation results ensure that the proposed microneedle can penetrate the human skin successfully with less stress and deformation.
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