Mechanical behavior of oil-saturated silicone membranes for adipose tissue synthesis in clinical and theatrical prosthesis

Arm, R, Shahidi, A, Pîslaru, A, Marasinghe, K, Bibb, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3975-389X and Hughes-Riley, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8020-430X, 2024. Mechanical behavior of oil-saturated silicone membranes for adipose tissue synthesis in clinical and theatrical prosthesis. Prosthesis, 6 (6), pp. 1340-1358. ISSN 2673-1592

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Abstract

Emulating very soft tissues with synthetic materials is important for clinical prosthetists who want to improve compliance in maxillofacial and breast prosthesis. It is equally important for theatrical prosthetists wanting to model bariatric conditions and soft organs for surgical or palpation training. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) gels, which are often used in medical model construction, are stiff and highly elastic compared to the friable soft tissues found in the body. Silicone oil is known to soften PDMS gels, but it is not known precisely how oil dispersal affects these gels and what proportion of oil is needed to simulate very soft tissue membranes like adipose tissue. In this work, internationally agreed test standards were used to mechanically characterize a range of PDMS gel membranes saturated with different amounts of silicone oil to determine whether materials with behavioral similarities to adipose tissue could be created. Mechanical properties like hardness, elasticity, strength, viscoelastic behavior and cure-time are presented in this study, which are all key factors required by the creators of such membranes. Results were compared to identical tests on porcine fat and data in the literature for porcine and human fat. The data revealed a strong correlation between increases in oil content and decreases in membrane hardness, strength and elastic modulus. It was also found that increases in oil content caused proportional increases in cure time, while membranes with equal amounts of oil and gel were best at mimicking characteristics of human and porcine fat, like hardness and elasticity.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Prosthesis
Creators:	Arm, R., Shahidi, A., Pîslaru, A., Marasinghe, K., Bibb, R. and Hughes-Riley, T.
Publisher:	MDPI
Date:	19 November 2024
Volume:	6
Number:	6
ISSN:	2673-1592
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/prosthesis6060097 DOI 2296605 Other
Rights:	This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	25 Nov 2024 14:20
Last Modified:	25 Nov 2024 14:20
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52654

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