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Fully organic compliant dry electrodes self-adhesive to skin for long-term motion-robust epidermal biopotential monitoring

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Zhang, Lei, Kumar, Kirthika Senthil, He, Hao, Cai, Catherine Jiayi, He, Xu, Gao, Huxin, Yue, Shizhong, Li, Changsheng +3 more·2020·Nature Communications

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Wearable dry electrodes are needed for long-term biopotential recordings but are limited by their imperfect compliance with the skin, especially during body movements and sweat secretions, resulting in high interfacial impedance and motion artifacts. Herein, we report an intrinsically conductive polymer dry electrode with excellent self-adhesiveness, stretchability, and conductivity. It shows much lower skin-contact impedance and noise in static and dynamic measurement than the current dry electrodes and standard gel electrodes, enabling to acquire high-quality electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyogram (EMG) and electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in various conditions such as dry and wet skin and during body movement. Hence, this dry electrode can be used for long-term healthcare monitoring in complex daily conditions. We further investigated the capabilities of this electrode in a clinical setting and realized its ability to detect the arrhythmia features of atrial fibrillation accurately, and quantify muscle activity during deep tendon reflex testing and contraction against resistance.

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Authors
Zhang, L., Kumar, K. S., He, H., Cai, C. J., He, X., Gao, H., Yue, S., Li, C., Seet, R. C.-S., Ren, H., & Ouyang, J.
Affiliations
  • National University of Singapore (SG)
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
  • Beijing Institute of Technology (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Ren, Hongliang
  • Ouyang, Jianyong
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2020-09-17
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
4683-4683
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3087014339
Cited by
574
References
68
Citations by year
2026: 81 · 2025: 132 · 2024: 111 · 2023: 109 · 2022: 86 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 2
FWCI
19.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • National University of Singapore (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Ministry of Education, India
  • National Medical Research Council (R-397-000-245-511)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Conducting polymers and applications
Keywords
dry electrodes, self-adhesive electrodes, epidermal electrodes, intrinsically conductive polymers, motion artifacts, stretchable electrodes, wearable biosensors, electrocardiogram, electromyography, EEG, atrial fibrillation detection, muscle activity measurement
MeSH terms
Electric Conductivity, Electrocardiography, Electrodes, Electroencephalography, Electromyography, Epidermis, Equipment Design, Humans, Monitoring, Physiologic, Motion, Polymers, Skin, Sorbitol, Artifacts, Electric Impedance

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