The sensor is worn on the wetsuit's sleeve and the potentiostat and battery are kept in a watertight compartment integrated into the wetsuit
Sensors printed onto the sleeves of wetsuits could alert the wearer to contaminated water. Navy divers could also use the sensors to locate underwater explosives, such as mines.
Joseph Wang at the University of California in San Diego, US, and colleagues have demonstrated that their sensors can be printed directly onto neoprene, a synthetic rubber commonly used in wet- and dry-suits.
Read Tamsin Phillips’ news piece in Chemistry World or access the full article for free using the link below.
Wearable electrochemical sensors for in situ analysis in marine environments
Kerstin Malzahn, Joshua Ray Windmiller, Gabriela Valdés-Ramírez, Michael J. Schöning and Joseph Wang
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DOI: 10.1039/C1AN15193B
