Textile Organic Electrochemical Transistors as a Platform for Wearable Biosensors.

ABSTRACT: The development of wearable chemical sensors is receiving a great deal of attention in view of non-invasive and continuous monitoring of physiological parameters in healthcare applications. This paper describes the development of a fully textile, wearable chemical sensor based on an organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) entirely made of conductive polymer (PEDOT:PSS). The active polymer patterns are deposited into the fabric by screen printing processes, thus allowing the device to actually "disappear" into it. We demonstrate the reliability of the proposed textile OECTs as a platform for developing chemical sensors capable to detect in real-time various redox active molecules (adrenaline, dopamine and ascorbic acid), by assessing their performance in two different experimental context

SUBMITTER: Gualandi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5035988 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature