Large‐Scale Patterning of Reactive Surfaces for Wearable and Environmentally Deployable Sensors

Abstract

Wearable interfaces are central to multiple healthcare and wellness strategies encompassing diet and nutrition, personalized health monitoring, and performance optimization. Specifically, the advent of flexible electronic formats coupled with microfluidic interfaces has resulted in sophisticated conformal devices for biofluid sampling and quantification. Here, a complementary approach is presented to wearable sensing by using a large‐scale, conformal, distributed format that relies on the use of biomaterial‐based inks to print and stabilize deterministic patterns of biochemical reporters with high resolution. Colorimetric devices can vary in size and a sensing T‐shirt based on a colorimetric pattern is developed to illustrate the utility that such formats can add to the wearable interface space. Image analysis allows parameter variation to be tracked in real‐time, yielding a map‐like format of distributed biophysical response.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 27, 2020
Source ID
10.1002/adma.202001258

Entities

People

  • Arin Naidu
  • Daniel G. Pascal
  • Fiorenzo G Omenetto
  • Giulia Guidetti
  • Giusy Matzeu
  • Laia Mogas‐soldevila
  • Meng Li
  • Patricia R. Blumeris
  • Patrick Song
  • Roger Gu
  • Trent H. Turner
  • Wenyi Li

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • Tufts University
  • United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command

Tags

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Space