Soft, Skin-Interfaced Microfluidic Systems with Wireless, Battery-Free Electronics for Digital, Real-Time Tracking of Sweat Loss and Electrolyte Composition
- Authors
- Kim, Sung Bong; Lee, KunHyuck; Raj, Milan S.; Lee, Boram; Reeder, Jonathan T.; Koo, Jahyun; Hourlier-Fargette, Aurelie; Bandodkar, Amay J.; Won, Sang Min; Sekine, Yurina; Choi, Jungil; Zhang, Yi; Yoon, Jangryeol; Kim, Bong Hoon; Yun, Yeojeong; Lee, Seojin; Shin, Jiho; Kim, Jeonghyun; Ghaffari, Roozbeh; Rogers, John A.
- Issue Date
- Nov-2018
- Publisher
- WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
- Keywords
- flexible electrodes; microfluidics; near field communication; sweat conductivity
- Citation
- SMALL, v.14, no.45
- Journal Title
- SMALL
- Volume
- 14
- Number
- 45
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/39146
- DOI
- 10.1002/smll.201802876
- ISSN
- 1613-6810
- Abstract
- Sweat excretion is a dynamic physiological process that varies with body position, activity level, environmental factors, and health status. Conventional means for measuring the properties of sweat yield accurate results but their requirements for sampling and analytics do not allow for use in the field. Emerging wearable devices offer significant advantages over existing approaches, but each has significant drawbacks associated with bulk and weight, inability to quantify volumetric sweat rate and loss, robustness, and/or inadequate accuracy in biochemical analysis. This paper presents a thin, miniaturized, skin-interfaced microfluidic technology that includes a reusable, battery-free electronics module for measuring sweat conductivity and rate in real-time using wireless power from and data communication to electronic devices with capabilities in near field communications (NFC), including most smartphones. The platform exploits ultrathin electrodes integrated within a collection of microchannels as interfaces to circuits that leverage NFC protocols. The resulting capabilities are complementary to those of previously reported colorimetric strategies. Systematic studies of these combined microfluidic/electronic systems, accurate correlations of measurements performed with them to those of laboratory standard instrumentation, and field tests on human subjects exercising and at rest establish the key operational features and their utility in sweat analytics.
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