Wireless, soft electronics for rapid, multisensor measurements of hydration levels in healthy and diseased skin.

ABSTRACT: Precise, quantitative measurements of the hydration status of skin can yield important insights into dermatological health and skin structure and function, with additional relevance to essential processes of thermoregulation and other features of basic physiology. Existing tools for determining skin water content exploit surrogate electrical assessments performed with bulky, rigid, and expensive instruments that are difficult to use in a repeatable manner. Recent alternatives exploit thermal measurements using soft wireless devices that adhere gently and noninvasively to the surface of the skin, but with limited operating range (∼1 cm) and high sensitivity to subtle environmental fluctuations. This paper introduces a set of ideas and technologies that overcome these drawbacks to enable hig

SUBMITTER: Kwon K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7865173 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature