Point-of-Care Diagnoses: Flexible Patterning Technique for Self-Powered Wearable Sensors

Anal Chem. 2018 Oct 16;90(20):11780-11784. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02838. Epub 2018 Sep 27.

Abstract

This paper demonstrated the fabrication of a facile, low-cost, and self-powered platform for point-of-care fitness level and athletic performance monitoring sensor using electrochemical lithography method and its application in body fluid sensing. Flexible Au/prussian blue electrode was employed as the indicating electrode, where the color change was an indication of fitness level and athletic performance. A piece of Al foil, Au/multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-glucose dehydrogenase, and Au/polymethylene blue-MWCNTs-lactic dehydrogenase electrodes were used for the detection of ionic strength, glucose, and lactic acid in sweat, respectively, which allows the sensor to work without any extra instrumentation and the output signal can be recognized by the naked eyes. The advantages of these sensors are (1) self-powered; (2) readily applicable to the detection of any electroactive substance by an electrochromic material; (3) easy to fabricate via two steps of EDP; and (4) point-of-care. By assembling the energy and sensing components together through a transparent adhesive tape, the proposed self-powered wearable biosensor exhibits superior performances, indicating its broad applied prospect in the point-of-care diagnoses.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Body Fluids / chemistry*
  • Electrochemical Techniques* / instrumentation
  • Electrodes
  • Ferrocyanides / chemistry
  • Glucose / analysis
  • Glucose 1-Dehydrogenase / chemistry
  • Glucose 1-Dehydrogenase / metabolism
  • Gold / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Lactic Acid / analysis
  • Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry
  • Osmolar Concentration
  • Point-of-Care Systems*
  • Wearable Electronic Devices*

Substances

  • Ferrocyanides
  • Nanotubes, Carbon
  • Lactic Acid
  • Gold
  • Glucose 1-Dehydrogenase
  • Glucose
  • ferric ferrocyanide