Biofuel-powered soft electronic skin with multiplexed and wireless sensing for human-machine interfaces.

ABSTRACT: Existing electronic skin (e-skin) sensing platforms are equipped to monitor physical parameters using power from batteries or near-field communication. For e-skins to be applied in the next generation of robotics and medical devices, they must operate wirelessly and be self-powered. However, despite recent efforts to harvest energy from the human body, self-powered e-skin with the ability to perform biosensing with Bluetooth communication are limited because of lack of a continuous energy source and limited power efficiency. Here, we report a flexible and fully perspiration-powered integrated electronic skin (PPES) for multiplexed metabolic sensing in situ. The battery-free e-skin contains multimodal sensors and highly efficient lactate biofuel cells that use a unique integration of zero-

SUBMITTER: Yu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7326328 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature