Wireless battery-free wearable sweat sensor powered by human motion

By Yu Song, Jihong Min, You Yu, Haobin Wang, Yiran Yang, Haixia Zhang, Wei Gao. Science Advances, 2020

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Wireless battery-free wearable sensor powered by human motion is able to analyze sweat biomarkers for personalized health care. Wireless wearable sweat biosensors have gained huge traction due to their potential for noninvasive health monitoring. As high energy consumption is a crucial challenge in this field, efficient energy harvesting from human motion represents an attractive approach to sustainably power future wearables. Despite intensive research activities, most wearable energy harvesters suffer from complex fabrication procedures, poor robustness, and low power density, making them unsuitable for continuous biosensing. Here, we propose a highly robust, mass-producible, and battery-free wearable platform that efficiently extracts power from body motion through a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB)–based freestanding triboelectric nanogenerator (FTENG). The judiciously engineered FTENG displays a high power output of ~416 mW m−2. Through seamless system integration and efficient power management, we demonstrate a battery-free triboelectrically driven system that is able to power multiplexed sweat biosensors and wirelessly transmit data to the user interfaces through Bluetooth during on-body human trials.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomedical Engineering

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  2. Long Liu
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In Cognitive Neuroscience

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  2. Long Liu
  3. Chengkuo Lee

In Polymers and Plastics

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  2. Xinge Guo
  3. Chengkuo Lee

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