Journal
BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 529-538Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10544-008-9168-5
Keywords
Wireless sensor; Hydrogel; Pressure sensor; Chemical sensor; Smart material
Funding
- US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity [DA/DAMD17-02-1-0722]
- National Institutes of Health [EB003215]
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We report fabrication and characterization of a new hydrogel-based microsensor for wireless chemical monitoring. The basic device structure is a high-sensitivity capacitive pressure sensor coupled to a stimuli-sensitive hydrogel that is confined between a stiff porous membrane and a thin glass diaphragm. As small molecules pass through the porous membrane, the hydrogel swells and deflects the diaphragm which is also the movable plate of the variable capacitor in an LC resonator. The resulting change in resonant frequency can be remotely detected by the phase-dip technique. Prior to hydrogel loading, the sensitivity of the pressure sensor to applied air pressure was measured to be 222kHz/kPa over the range of 41.9-51.1MHz. With a pH-sensitive hydrogel, the sensor displayed a sensitivity of 1.16MHz/pH for pH3.0-6.5, and a response time of 45 minutes.
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