Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 32, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202000991
Keywords
cascade reaction; epidermal biosensors; mechanical tolerance; metabolite monitoring; soft bioelectronics
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Funding
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) under its AME Programmatic Funding Scheme Cyber-Physiochemical Interfaces (CPI) Programme [A18A1b0045]
- National Research Foundation (NRF), Prime Minister's office, Singapore under its NRF Investigatorship [NRF-NRFI2017-07]
- Singapore Ministry of Education [MOE2017-T2-2-107, M4011873.120]
- Nanyang Technological University [NTU-SUG: M4081781.120]
- A*STAR Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Young Individual Research Grant [A1784C0018]
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Epidermal bioelectronics that can monitor human health status non-invasively and in real time are core to wearable healthcare equipment. Achieving mechanically tolerant surface bioreactions that convert biochemical information to detectable signals is crucial for obtaining high sensing fidelity. In this work, by combining simulations and experiments, a typical epidermal biosensor system is investigated based on a redox enzyme cascade reaction (RECR) comprising glucose oxidase/lactate oxidase enzymes and Prussian blue nanoparticles. Simulations reveal that strain-induced change in surface reactant flux is the key to the performance drop in traditional flat bioelectrodes. In contrast, wavy bioelectrodes capable of curvature adaptation maintain the reactant flux under strain, which preserves sensing fidelity. This rationale is experimentally proven by bioelectrodes with flat/wavy geometry under both static strain and dynamic stretching. When exposed to 50% strain, the signal fluctuations for wavy bioelectrodes are only 7.0% (4.9%) in detecting glucose (lactate), which are significantly lower than the 40.3% (51.8%) in flat bioelectrodes. Based on this wavy bioelectrode, a stable human epidermal metabolite biosensor insensitive to human gestures is further demonstrated. This mechanically tolerant biosensor based on adaptive curvature engineering provides a reliable bio/chemical-information monitoring platform for soft healthcare bioelectronics.
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