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Medium-distance affordable, flexible and wireless epidermal sensor for pH monitoring in sweat

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TALANTA
卷 222, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121502

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Potentiometric sensor; Iridium oxide; RFID; Screen-printed electrode; Kapton

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  1. Italian Ministry of Defence

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Wearable sensors play a key role in reliable health state monitoring, although wearable and epidermal sensors for chemical biomarker monitoring are not yet fully developed. In this study, a wireless and flexible epidermal device for pH monitoring in sweat was fabricated, showing promising results in real-time monitoring of pH levels during physical activities.
In the last decade, wearable sensors have gained a key role on biomedical research field for reliable health state monitoring. A wide plethora of physics marker sensors is already commercially available, including activity tracker, heart rate devices, and fitness smartwatch. On the contrary, wearable and epidermal sensors for chemical biomarker monitoring in several biofluids are not ready yet. Herein, we report a wireless and flexible epidermal device for pH monitoring in sweat, fabricated by encompassing a screen-printed potentiometric sensor, an integrated circuit, and antenna embedded onto the same Kapton substrate. An iridium oxide film was electrodeposited onto the graphite working electrode providing the pH sensitive layer, while the integrated circuit board allows for data acquisition and storing. Furthermore, a radio frequency identification antenna surrounding the entire system enables data transmission to an external reader up to nearly 2 m in the most favourable case. The potentiometric sensor was firstly characterised by cyclic voltammetry experiments, then the iridium oxide electrodeposition procedure was optimised. Next, the sensor was tested toward pH detection in buffer solutions with a near-Nernstian response equal to-0.079 +/- 0.002 V for unit of pH. Interference studies of common sweat ions, including Na+, K+ and Cl-, showed any influence on the pH sensor response. Finally, the integrated epidermal device was tested for real-time on-body pH sweat monitoring during a running activity. Data recorded for a running subject were wireless transmitted to an external receiver, showing a pH value close to 5.5, in agreement with value obtained by pH-meter reference measurement.

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