ArticleMicrosystems & nanoengineering2019
A mass-customizable dermal patch with discrete colorimetric indicators for personalized sweat rate quantification.
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- A Review of Recent Advances in Vital Signals Monitoring of Sports and Health via Flexible Wearable Sensors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A Comprehensive Review of the Recent Developments in Wearable Sweat-Sensing Devices.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A Focused Review on the Flexible Wearable Sensors for Sports: From Kinematics to Physiologies.Micromachines · 2022Review
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- Biomarkers and Detection Platforms for Human Health and Performance Monitoring: A Review.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Review
- Wearable Sweat Loss Measuring Devices: From the Role of Sweat Loss to Advanced Mechanisms and Designs.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Review
- State of Sweat: Emerging Wearable Systems for Real-Time, Noninvasive Sweat Sensing and Analytics.ACS sensors · 2021Article
- Molecular and physical technologies for monitoring fluid and electrolyte imbalance: A focus on cancer population.Clinical and translational medicine · 2021Review
- Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities for wearable biochemical sensors for sweat analysis.Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical · 2021Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
In this paper, we present a disposable, colorimetric, user-friendly and mass-customizable dermal patch for chronological collection and discrete real-time in situ measurement of sweat secretion over a small area of skin. The patch consists of a laminated filter paper patterned into radially arranged channels/fingers with water-activated dyes at their tips. As channels are filled during perspiration, their tips change color once fully saturated, providing easily identifiable levels of water loss which in turn can be mapped to personal dehydration levels. The patch can be manufactured at low cost in a variety of sizes to allow hydration monitoring for individuals participating in activities under different conditions (intensity, temperature, humidity, etc.). Furthermore, we describe an analytical model that enables mass customization of such a flexible wearable system accommodating a broad range of sweat rates and volumes to generate patch designs that are personalized to an individual's sweat rate, desired time of usage, and the temporal resolution of the required feedback. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, we characterized laser-fabricated patches that cover (7 cm × 5 cm) area of skin having various wicking materials, thicknesses (180-540 µm), and pore sizes (3-11 µm). Tests were conducted at various flow rates simulating different sweating intensities in the range of 1.5-15 mg/cm
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