Journal
MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/micronano.2017.14
Keywords
epidermal electronics; hydration monitoring; thermal characterization
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB351900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11402135, 11320101001]
- NSF [DMR1121262, CMMI1300846, CMMI1400169, CMMI1534120]
- NIH [R01EB019337]
- National Science Foundation [DGE-1144245]
- L'Oreal Research Innovation
- Materials Research Laboratory
- Center for Microanalysis of Materials at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Precise, quantitative in vivo monitoring of hydration levels in the near surface regions of the skin can be useful in preventing skin-based pathologies, and regulating external appearance. Here we introduce multimodal sensors with important capabilities in this context, rendered in soft, ultrathin, 'skin-like' formats with numerous advantages over alternative technologies, including the ability to establish intimate, conformal contact without applied pressure, and to provide spatiotemporally resolved data on both electrical and thermal transport properties from sensitive regions of the skin. Systematic in vitro studies and computational models establish the underlying measurement principles and associated approaches for determination of temperature, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, volumetric heat capacity, and electrical impedance using simple analysis algorithms. Clinical studies on 20 patients subjected to a variety of external stimuli validate the device operation and allow quantitative comparisons of measurement capabilities to those of existing state-of-the-art tools.
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