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- Piper, Andrew, et al.
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A disposable, wearable, flexible, stitched textile electrochemical biosensing platform
- 2021
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Ingår i: Biosensors & bioelectronics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-5663 .- 1873-4235. ; 194
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wearable sensors are a fast growing and exciting research area, the success of smart watches are a great example of the utility and demand for wearable sensing systems. The current state of the art routinely uses expensive and bulky equipment designed for long term use. There is a need for cheap and disposable wearable sensors to make single use measurements, primarily in the area of biomarker detection. Herein we report the ability to make cheap (0.22 USD/sensor), disposable, wearable sensors by stitching conductive gold coated threads into fabrics. These threads are easily functionalised with thiolate self-assembled monolayers which can be designed for the detection of a broad range of different biomarkers. This all textile sensing platform is ideally suited to be scaled up and has the added advantage of being stretchable with insignificant effect on the electrochemistry of the devices. As a proof of principle, the devices have been functionalised with a continuous glucose sensing system which was able to detect glucose in human sweat across the clinically relevant range (0.1-0.6 mM). The sensors have a sensitivity of 126 +/- 14 nA/mM of glucose and a limit of detection of 301 +/- 2 nM. This makes them ideally suited for biomarker detection in point-of-care sensing applications.
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- Wang, Zhen, et al.
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Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Strong Thin Films with High Lithium Ion Conductance for Batteries and Beyond
- 2021
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Ingår i: Small. - : Wiley. - 1613-6810 .- 1613-6829. ; 17:32, s. 2100954-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Polyethylene oxide (PEO) is one of the most widely used polymeric ion conductors which has the potential for a wide range of applications in energy storage. The enhancement of ionic conductivity of PEO-based electrolytes is generally achieved by sacrificing the mechanical properties. Using layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly with a nanoscale precision, mechanically strong and self-healable PEO/polyacrylic acid composite thin films with a high Li+ conductivity of 2.3 ± 0.8 × 10−4 S cm−1 at 30 °C, and a strength of 3.7 MPa is prepared. These values make the LbL composite among the best recorded multifunctional solid electrolytes. The electrolyte thin film withstands at least 1000 cycles of striping/plating of Li at 0.05 mA cm−2. It is further shown that the LbL thin films can be used as separators for Li-ion batteries to deliver a capacity of 116 mAh g−1 at 0.1 C in an all-LbL-assembled lithium iron phosphate/lithium titanate battery. Finally, it is demonstrated that the thin films can be used as ion-conducting substrates for flexible electrochemical devices, including micro supercapacitors and electrochemical transistors.
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