Graphene e-tattoos for unobstructive ambulatory electrodermal activity sensing on the palm enabled by heterogeneous serpentine ribbons
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Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a popular index of mental stress. State-of-the-art EDA sensors suffer from obstructiveness on the palm or low signal fidelity off the palm. Our previous invention of sub-micron-thin imperceptible graphene e-tattoos (GET) is ideal for unobstructive EDA sensing on the palm. However, robust electrical connection between ultrathin devices and rigid circuit boards is a long missing component for ambulatory use. To minimize the well-known strain concentration at their interfaces, we propose heterogeneous serpentine ribbons (HSPR), which refer to a GET serpentine partially overlapping with a gold serpentine without added adhesive. A fifty-fold strain reduction in HSPR vs. heterogeneous straight ribbons (HSTR) has been discovered and understood. The combination of HSPR and a soft interlayer between the GET and an EDA wristband enabled ambulatory EDA monitoring on the palm in free-living conditions. A newly developed EDA event selection policy leveraging unbiased selection of phasic events validated our GET EDA sensor against gold standards.
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- Authors
- Jang, H., Sel, K., Kim, E., Kim, S., Yang, X., Kang, S., Ha, K.-H., Wang, R., Rao, Y., Jafari, R., & Lu, N.
- Affiliations
- Texas Materials Institute (US)
- Texas A&M University (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lu, Nanshu
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2022-11-03
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 6604-6604
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9633646
- OpenAlex
- W4308496860
- Cited by
- 127
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 25
- FWCI
- 7.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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- KAIST Institutional Repository (KAIST) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (CNS-1738293)
- United States Department of Defense | United States Navy | Office of Naval Research (N00014-20-1-2112)
- 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 › Materials Chemistry › Graphene research and applications
- Keywords
- ambulatory monitoring, flexible electronics
- MeSH terms
- Galvanic Skin Response, Graphite, Tattooing, Monitoring, Ambulatory
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