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KMID : 0604520080340040245
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Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
2008 Volume.34 No. 4 p.245 ~ p.258
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A Potential Applicability of Microfluidic Techniques for Fabricating Advanced Cosmetic Materials
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Park Sung-Hee
Kim Han-Kon
Jeong Kyu-Hyuck
Kim Jin-Woong
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Abstract
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We describe here how we can use microfluidic technologies for fabricating functional materials that could be potentially utilized in cosmetics; these include void structures, functional particulate materials, shell materials, and multi-layered colloids. We can obtain these functional materials as microfluidic approaches provide precise control over both outer dimensions and inner morphology of emulsion drops in picoliter-volume scales with high throughput. We have confirmed that this technique has a great potential to fabricate novel particles and capsules with a variety of chemical compositions as well as higher orders of layers. This microfluidic approach will allow us to develop a lot of new techniques that are useful for a variety of applications, including delivery systems, chemical separations, bio-sensing, actuators, and so on. We do believe that these new techniques will help cosmetic industry not only give rise advanced functional materials and systems but also widen its product categories.
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KEYWORD
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microfluidics, drops, capsules, delivery, cosmetics
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