Highly Stretchy Black Gold E‐Skin Nanopatches as Highly Sensitive Wearable Biomedical Sensors
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A μm-thin and highly stretchable strain sensor for human health and motion monitoring is presented. The technology is based on a stretchable latex rubber with flexible black gold nanowires patches. The fabrication strategy can be extended to a variety of soft substrates and exhibits high sensitivity.
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Phonation vibrations and voice patterns can be monitored using a strain sensor or a pressure sensor attached to the neck.
“The phonation vibrations and voice patterns can be monitored using a strain sensor [44,52,103,120,121,123,126] or a pressure sensor [57,141] attached to the neck.”
From Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [44]
Wearable strain sensors with a large strain detection range are widely used to monitor body motions, including finger bending, forearm muscle movements, and knee motions.
“Wearable strain sensors with a large strain detection range are widely used to monitor body motions, including finger bending, [41,52,120,123,126] forearm muscle movements, [21,44,52,103,120,123,153] and knee motions.[41,121,153]”
From Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [44]
Recognizing emotional expressions such as laughing, crying, blinking eyes, and others has been realized by using strain sensors to monitor the associated skin movements.
“Recognizing emotional expressions such as laughing, [46] crying, [46] blinking eyes, [46,103] and others [44,46,103,123] has been realized by using strain sensors to monitor the associated skin movements.”
From Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [44]
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- Authors
- Gong, S., Lai, D. T. H., Su, B., Si, K. J., Ma, Z., Yap, L. W., Guo, P., & Cheng, W.
- Affiliations
- Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (AU)
- Victoria University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Cheng, Wenlong
- Venue
- Advanced Electronic Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-03-18
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 2199-160X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2060962654
- Cited by
- 461
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 58 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 74 · 2018: 66 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 8
- FWCI
- 22.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advanced Electronic Materials (publishedVersion)
- Victoria University Research Repository (Victoria University) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- ARC discovery projects (DP120100170, DP140100052)
- Chinese Scholarship Council
- 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
- stretchable strain sensors, natural rubber latex, Nanopatch, wearable sensors, motion monitoring, human health monitoring, soft substrates, stretchable electronics
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