Modular and Reconfigurable Wireless E‐Tattoos for Personalized Sensing
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In the past few years, ultrathin and ultrasoft epidermal electronics (a.k.a. e‐tattoos) emerged as the next‐generation wearables for telemedicine, mobile health, performance tracking, human‐machine interface (HMI), and so on. However, it is not possible to build an all‐purpose e‐tattoo that can accommodate such a wide range of applications. Thus, the design, fabrication, and validation of modular and reconfigurable wireless e‐tattoos for personalized sensing are reported. Such e‐tattoos feature a multilayer stack of stretchable layers of distinct functionalities—a near field communication (NFC) layer capable of wireless power harvesting and data transmission, a functional circuit layer, and a passive electrode/sensor layer. These layers can be disassembled and swapped out multiple times to form different e‐tattoos of different sensing capabilities. Such modular and wireless e‐tattoos can be rapid‐prototyped via a dry, digital, and cost‐effective fabrication process—the “cut‐solder‐paste” process. They have been successfully applied to wirelessly measure a variety of biometrics.
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Rapid advances in flexible and stretchable soft bio-electronics provide a viable solution for wearable, comfortable, and continuous health monitoring.
“Rapid advances in flexible and stretchable soft bio-electronics, provide a viable solution for wearable, comfortable, and continuous health monitoring.”
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- Authors
- Jeong, H., Wang, L., Ha, T., Mitbander, R., Yang, X., Dai, Z., Qiao, S., Shen, L., Sun, N., & Lu, N.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Texas Materials Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lu, Nanshu
- ORCID
- Venue
- Advanced Materials Technologies
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-05-14
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 8
- ISSN
- 2365-709X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2945247555
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- 111
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- 37
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- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 6
- FWCI
- 6.16
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- en
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1509767)
- Army Research Laboratory (W911NF‐19‐2‐0036)
- Office of Naval Research (N00014‐16‐1‐2044)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Keywords
- epidermal electronics, modular electronics, reconfigurable sensors, near field communication, wireless energy harvesting, stretchable electronics, biometric sensing, wearable devices, human-machine interaction
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