Engineering and Technology

Ultra-conformal drawn-on-skin electronics for multifunctional motion artifact-free sensing and point-of-care treatment

F. Ershad, A. Thukral, et al.

Discover groundbreaking research conducted by Faheem Ershad, Anish Thukral, and their colleagues, showcasing the development of ultra-conformal, customizable drawn-on-skin electronics. These innovative devices offer robust physiological monitoring and accelerate skin wound healing, making health monitoring and disease treatment more effective.

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Abstract

Accurate extraction of physiological and physical signals from human skin is crucial for health monitoring, disease prevention, and treatment. This research presents ultra-conformal, customizable, and deformable drawn-on-skin electronics, robust to motion due to strong adhesion and ultra-conformality. Electronic inks are drawn directly onto the skin to create devices such as transistors, strain sensors, temperature sensors, heaters, skin hydration sensors, and electrophysiological sensors. The study demonstrates the electronics' immunity to motion artifacts during electrophysiological signal monitoring and shows accelerated skin wound healing using electrical stimulation.

Publisher

Nature Communications

Published On

Jul 30, 2020

Authors

Faheem Ershad, Anish Thukral, Jiping Yue, Phillip Comeaux, Yuntao Lu, Hyunseok Shim, Kyoseung Sim, Nam-In Kim, Zhoulyu Rao, Ross Guevara, Luis Contreras, Fengjiao Pan, Yongcao Zhang, Ying-Shi Guan, Pinyi Yang, Xu Wang, Peng Wang, Xiaoyang Wu, Cunjiang Yu

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