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A soft, wearable microfluidic device for the capture, storage, and colorimetric sensing of sweat.

ABSTRACT: Capabilities in health monitoring enabled by capture and quantitative chemical analysis of sweat could complement, or potentially obviate the need for, approaches based on sporadic assessment of blood samples. Established sweat monitoring technologies use simple fabric swatches and are limited to basic analysis in controlled laboratory or hospital settings. We present a collection of materials and device designs for soft, flexible, and stretchable microfluidic systems, including embodiments that integrate wireless communication electronics, which can intimately and robustly bond to the surface of the skin without chemical and mechanical irritation. This integration defines access points for a small set of sweat glands such that perspiration spontaneously initiates routing of sweat through a microfluidic network and set of reservoirs. Embedded chemical analyses respond in colorimetric fashion to markers such as chloride and hydronium ions, glucose, and lactate. Wireless interfaces to digital image capture hardware serve as a means for quantitation. Human studies demonstrated the functionality of this microfluidic device during fitness cycling in a controlled environment and during long-distance bicycle racing in arid, outdoor conditions. The results include quantitative values for sweat rate, total sweat loss, pH, and concentration of chloride and lactate.

SUBMITTER: Koh A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5429097 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A soft, wearable microfluidic device for the capture, storage, and colorimetric sensing of sweat.

Koh Ahyeon A Kang Daeshik D Xue Yeguang Y Lee Seungmin S Pielak Rafal M RM Kim Jeonghyun J Hwang Taehwan T Min Seunghwan S Banks Anthony A Bastien Philippe P Manco Megan C MC Wang Liang L Ammann Kaitlyn R KR Jang Kyung-In KI Won Phillip P Han Seungyong S Ghaffari Roozbeh R Paik Ungyu U Slepian Marvin J MJ Balooch Guive G Huang Yonggang Y Rogers John A JA

Science translational medicine 20161101 366

Capabilities in health monitoring enabled by capture and quantitative chemical analysis of sweat could complement, or potentially obviate the need for, approaches based on sporadic assessment of blood samples. Established sweat monitoring technologies use simple fabric swatches and are limited to basic analysis in controlled laboratory or hospital settings. We present a collection of materials and device designs for soft, flexible, and stretchable microfluidic systems, including embodiments that ...[more]

PMID: 27881826

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A soft, wearable microfluidic device for the capture, storage, and colorimetric sensing of sweat.

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A soft, wearable microfluidic device for the capture, storage, and colorimetric sensing of sweat.

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