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Pro‐Healing Zwitterionic Skin Sensor Enables Multi‐Indicator Distinction and Continuous Real‐Time Monitoring.

Authors :
Guo, Hongshuang
Bai, Ming
Zhu, Yingnan
Liu, Xinmeng
Tian, Shu
Long, You
Ma, Yiming
Wen, Chiyu
Li, Qingsi
Yang, Jing
Zhang, Lei
Source :
Advanced Functional Materials. 12/9/2021, Vol. 31 Issue 50, p1-13. 13p.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

In both artificial electronic and ionic skins, the distinction of multi‐stimuli response in a single sensing unit is challenging, due to unavoidable mutual signal interference. Here, a zwitterionic skin sensor system that can continuously monitor and differentiate three‐stimuli‐responsive information in real‐time is designed. This sandwich‐structured sensor system is based on a zwitterionic thermo–glucose‐sensitive skin‐like hydrogel at its upper and lower layers with a middle isolation elastomer layer, enabling monitoring and distinction of temperature, mechanical and glucose information without signal interference: 1) the capacitance of the upper/lower layers as glucose–temperature‐insensitive is variable to measure strain; 2) the resistance of the upper hydrogel as glucose‐insensitive is variable to measure strain and temperature; and 3) the resistance of the lower hydrogel can detect three indicators. Based on the skin sensor system, a smart wound dressing is developed to pro‐heal chronic diabetic wounds and enable continuous real‐time monitoring of three indicators—infection, swelling, and blood glucose. This work provides a new method of real‐time monitoring and the distinction of multi‐stimuli response in a wearable device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1616301X
Volume :
31
Issue :
50
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Advanced Functional Materials
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
154046923
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202106406