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Highly Strain-Stable Intrinsically Stretchable Olfactory Sensors for Imperceptible Health Monitoring.

Authors :
Zhao G
Sun J
Zhang M
Guo S
Wang X
Li J
Tong Y
Zhao X
Tang Q
Liu Y
Source :
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) [Adv Sci (Weinh)] 2023 Oct; Vol. 10 (29), pp. e2302974. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 23.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Intrinsically stretchable gas sensors possess outstanding advantages in seamless conformability and high-comfort wearability for real-time detection toward skin/respiration gases, making them promising candidates for health monitoring and non-invasive disease diagnosis and therapy. However, the strain-induced deformation of the sensitive semiconductor layers possibly causes the sensing signal drift, resulting in failure in achievement of the reliable gas detection. Herein, a surprising result that the stretchable organic polymers present a universal strain-insensitive gas sensing property is shown. All the stretchable polymers with different degrees of crystallinity, including indacenodithiophene-benzothiadiazole (PIDTBT), diketo-pyrrolo-pyrrole bithiophene thienothiophene (DPPT-TT) and poly[4-(4,4-dihexadecyl-4H-cyclopenta[1,2-b:5,4-b']dithiophen-2-yl)-alt-[1,2,5]thiad-iazolo [3,4-c] pyridine] (PCDTPT), show almost unchanged gas response signals in the different stretching states. This outstanding advantage enables the intrinsically stretchable devices to imperceptibly adhere on human skin and well conform to the versatile deformations such as bending, twisting, and stretching, with the highly strain-stable gas sensing property. The intrinsically stretchable PIDTBT sensor also demonstrates the excellent selectivity toward the skin-emitted trimethylamine (TMA) gas, with a theoretical limit of detection as low as 0.3 ppb. The work provides new insights into the preparation of the reliable skin-like gas sensors and highlights the potential applications in the real-time detection of skin gas and respiration gas for non-invasive medical treatment and disease diagnosis.<br /> (© 2023 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2198-3844
Volume :
10
Issue :
29
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
37610561
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202302974