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Adhesives for silicone facial and body prosthetics often fail due to sweat, skin oils, movement, they deteriorate the prosthesis due to their solvent system or they are troublesome due to the need for perfect placement of the prosthesis on the first try. A 2-component fast cure(1-2 min) tacky gel that elongates with skin movement beneath the nasal/facial prosthesis is desired. Or, a one component air cure system would be even better. The ideal material would not run, would be light weight, perhaps even aerated so it would be compressible. As the prosthesis was positioned the skin contact areas would compress to a thin film of adhesive and non-contact areas or voids would remain foam-filled-like. Ideally the material would set to the extent that it would ultimately adhere preferentially to itself and peel as a mass from the skin and prosthesis. In my view such a product would benefit prosthetics and wound care.
From left to right: Matt Kudek, Lindsey Carlson, Nicole Daehn, Paul Schildgen, Chris Walker
The team has finished making several prototypes and is preparing for the final presentation.
Final Blister Pack Design
Applying the two component adhesive to a piece of artificial skin made from silicon.
| Week | Reporting Period Beginning | Activities |
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| 1 | September 7 | Assigned team roles, got in touch with our client to get preliminary ideas of what the focus of our project should be. |
| 2 | September 14 | Researched different types of adhesives and developed a project statement and a goal for the semester. |
| 3 | September 21 | Finally met with our client and got more information about what sort of direction the client wanted us to go with our project. |
| 4 | September 28 | Decided to concentrate on designing a prototype that would dispense and mix the two adhesive substances in an efficient way |
| 5 | October 5 | Developed our PDS and had a second meeting with our client to find what he believes are the most important things to consider for our design matrix. |
| 6 | October 12 | Finished our design matrix and picked the design we want to develop from our previous design ideas. |
| 7 | October 19 | Work on our midsemester presentation. |
| 8 | October 26 | Researching what types of adhesives are effective for the peeling of the adhesive from the skin with out damage |
| 9 | November 2 | Brainstormed ideas to modify our air pressure tube design |
| 10 | November 9 | Brainstormed more ideas to modify our air pressure tube design |
| 11 | November 16 | Made our preliminary prototype for our final presentation |
| 12 | November 23 | Start the final poster for presentation, met with client to finalize our design |
| 13 | November 30 | Continued working on prototype design and assigned roles for presentation |
| 14 | December 7 | Finish our design prototype, finish our poster for presentation, and practiced for presentation |
| 15 | December 14 | Finished up paper, handed in notebooks for evaluation |
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Mid-semester Presentation (Oct 18 2007, 824 kb) |
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Project Design Specifications (Oct 23 2007, 83 kb) |
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Mid-semester Paper (Oct 24 2007, 920 kb) |
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Final Paper (Dec 12 2007, 2019 kb) |
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Poster Presentation (Dec 15 2007, 1629 kb) |
