由于绘制皮肤电子产品,可穿戴监视器的突破
研究人员开发了一种新型的电子产品,称为“皮肤上的电子设备”,允许用墨水笔在皮肤上绘制多功能传感器和电路。
前进允许收集更精确的运动伪影健康数据,解决当受试者运动时通过可穿戴设备收集精确生物数据的长期问题。
The imprecision may not be important when your FitBit registers 4,000 steps instead of 4,200, but sensors designed to check heart function, temperature and other physical signals must be accurate if they are to be used for diagnostics and treatment.
drawn-on-skin电子能够无缝的ly collect data, regardless of the wearer’s movements. They also offer other advantages, including simple fabrication techniques that don’t require dedicated equipment. “It is applied like you would use a pen to write on a piece of paper,” said Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. “We prepare several electronic materials and then use pens to dispense them. Coming out, it is liquid. But like ink on paper, it dries very quickly.”
可穿戴生物电体化– in the form of soft, flexible patches attached to the skin – have become an important way to monitor, prevent and treat illness and injury by tracking physiological information from the wearer. But even the most flexiblewearables受运动伪影的限制,或者在收集数据时出现的困难sensor不会恰好与皮肤移动。
绘制皮肤电子设备可以定制,以收集不同类型的信息,而YU则预计在不可能进入复杂设备的情况下特别有用,包括在战场上。他说,电子器件能够跟踪肌肉信号,心率,温度和皮肤水合,以及其他物理数据。研究人员还报告说,皮肤上的电子产品已经证明了加速伤口愈合的能力。
绘制的皮肤电子设备实际上包括三种墨水,用作导体,半导体和电介质。“电墨水,包括导体,半导体和电介质,以自由形式方式绘制,以开发设备,例如晶体管,应变传感器,温度传感器,加热器,皮肤水合传感器和电生理传感器,”“研究人员写道。
该研究发表于Nature Communications。
Source:休斯顿大学