Wearable Photomedicine for Neonatal Jaundice Treatment Using Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs): Toward Textile-Based Wearable Phototherapeutics
- Authors
- Choi, Seungyeop; Jeon, Yongmin; Kwon, Jeong Hyun; Ihm, Chunhwa; Kim, Seung Yeon; Choi, Kyung Cheol
- Issue Date
- Dec-2022
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- bilirubin; neonatal jaundice; organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs); photomedicine; textile; wearable electronic devices
- Citation
- ADVANCED SCIENCE, v.9, no.35
- Journal Title
- ADVANCED SCIENCE
- Volume
- 9
- Number
- 35
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/86299
- DOI
- 10.1002/advs.202204622
- ISSN
- 2198-3844
- Abstract
- Neonatal jaundice is a very common disease in newborns and can lead to brain damage or death in severe cases. Phototherapy with light-emitting diode (LED) arrays is widely used as the easiest and fastest way to relieve jaundice in newborns, but it has distinct disadvantages such as loss of water in the patient, damage to the retina, and separation from parents. In this paper, a novel light source-based phototherapy for neonatal jaundice is proposed using a textile-based wearable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) platform that can move flexibly and conform to the curvature of the human body. The soft and flexible textile-based blue OLED platform is designed to have a peak wavelength of 470 nm, suitable for jaundice treatment, and shows performance (>20 mu W cm(-2) nm(-)(1)) suitable for intensive jaundice treatment even at low voltage (<4.0 V). The textile-based OLEDs fabricated in this study exhibit an operating reliability of over 100 h and low-temperature operation (<35 degrees C). The results of an in vitro jaundice treatment test using a large-area blue OLED confirm that the bilirubin level decreases to 12 mg dL(-1) with 3 h of OLED irradiation.
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