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ArticleMicrosystems & nanoengineering2026

Skin-like micropumps transform human motion into fluidic flow via morphing valves.

Rana Altay, Kari Olson, Johanna Brown, Andrea Pader, I Emre Araci

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Rana AltayDepartment of Bioengineering, Santa Clara University, Santa, CA, 95053, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1813-5048
Kari OlsonDepartment of Bioengineering, Santa Clara University, Santa, CA, 95053, USA.
Johanna BrownDepartment of Bioengineering, Santa Clara University, Santa, CA, 95053, USA.
Andrea PaderDepartment of Bioengineering, Santa Clara University, Santa, CA, 95053, USA.
I Emre AraciDepartment of Bioengineering, Santa Clara University, Santa, CA, 95053, USA. iaraci@scu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1327-9229

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National Science Foundation (NSF) 2045087
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft, skin-conformal fluidic systems are essential for wearable healthcare; however, micropumps that rely on rigid external hardware for actuation have limited portability and on-body integration. Here, we introduce OSMiPump, a power-free, strain-driven micropump that directly converts natural human motion into unidirectional fluid transport using a soft, monolithic architecture. OSMiPump integrates out-of-surface microchannels (OSMiCs) with self-actuated valves (OSMiValves), where cyclic tensile strain induces volume reduction and valve snap-through/snap-back, producing reliable directionality over repeated strain cycles. Computational fluid-structure interaction modeling and nonlinear shell deformation analysis validate the operating mechanism. Experimentally, OSMiPump exhibits predictable performance across valve geometries, strain levels and profiles, fluid viscosities, and inlet/outlet resistance configurations. At 20% strain, it achieves average flow rates up to ~0.16 µL/s under low-resistance conditions and maintains ~0.02 µL/s under high-resistance conditions, reaching peak pressures of ~11 kPa and sustaining an average pressure of ~0.6 kPa, with consistent operation over 100 cycles. The self-morphing architecture further enables tunable pumping behavior, including adjustable strain thresholds and response dynamics. Wearable demonstrations show direct actuation by body motion and enable both on-body delivery and removal for applications such as wound care and drug administration during physical rehabilitation, exercise, or daily activities. Integration into silicone socks and skin-mounted Tegaderm films illustrates the versatility of the platform. Together, these results establish OSMiPump as a soft, monolithic, and skin-conformal micropump for next-generation wearable biomedical systems.

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