A new form of electronics that integrates with human skin could allow wound tracking in real time over long periods.
Binghamton University researchers created the wearable biosensors — analytical devices with a skin-like biological component — to detect chemical substances and the body’s reaction to them.
“We hope that these sensors and engineering accomplishments can help advance healthcare applications and provide a better quantitative understanding in disease progression, wound care, general health, fitness monitoring and more,” said Ph.D. student Matthew Brown.
The open-mesh electromechanical sensor is already capable of monitoring lactate and oxygen, two elements needed for wound-healing progression. The researchers hope to one day create a sensor that melds seamlessly with the body to maximize analysis or make it suitable for use on internal organs.
“This intimately bio-integrated sensing system is capable of determining critical biochemical events while being invisible to the biological system or not evoking an inflammatory response,” assistant professor Ahyeon Koh explained.
From the May 1, 2019 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
