Researchers based in Australia have developed a soft and stretchable device that recognises artery pulses or body movements, and relays the information to a smartphone.
The demand for wearable devices has surged in recent years with gadgets to monitor body movements, heart rate and sweat metabolites, among other things. However, most of the devices currently available are not truly wearable because they do not sit flush with the skin so do not deform as the body moves.
Interested? The full article can be read at Chemistry World.
An ammeter indicates changes in the electric current running through the sensor as it is stretched © Royal Society of Chemistry
The original article is free to access until the 25th March 2016 and can be read below:
Volume-invariant ionic liquid microbands as highly durable wearable biomedical sensors
Yan Wang, Shu Gong, Stephen Jia Wang, George P. Simon and Wenlong Cheng*
Mater. Horiz., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5MH00284B
