A wearable chemical-electrophysiological hybrid biosensing system for real-time health and fitness monitoring

作者：Imani, Somayeh; Bandodkar, Amay J.; Mohan, A. M. Vinu; Kumar, Rajan; Yu, Shengfei; Wang, Joseph^*; Mercier, Patrick P.^*

来源：Nature Communications, 2016, 7(1): 11650.

DOI：10.1038/ncomms11650

• SWEAT LACTATE
• MOUTHGUARD BIOSENSOR
• RESISTANCE EXERCISE
• SENSOR ARRAYS
• ELECTRONICS
• TEXTILE
• POSTURE
• PERSPIRATION
• DEVICES
• DISEASE

Flexible, wearable sensing devices can yield important information about the underlying physiology of a human subject for applications in real-time health and fitness monitoring. Despite significant progress in the fabrication of flexible biosensors that naturally comply with the epidermis, most designs measure only a small number of physical or electrophysiological parameters, and neglect the rich chemical information available from biomarkers. Here, we introduce a skin-worn wearable hybrid sensing system that offers simultaneous real-time monitoring of a biochemical (lactate) and an electrophysiological signal (electrocardiogram), for more comprehensive fitness monitoring than from physical or electrophysiological sensors alone. The two sensing modalities, comprising a three-electrode amperometric lactate biosensor and a bipolar electrocardiogram sensor, are co-fabricated on a flexible substrate and mounted on the skin. Human experiments reveal that physiochemistry and electrophysiology can be measured simultaneously with negligible cross-talk, enabling a new class of hybrid sensing devices.

• 出版日期2016-5