Biosensor; Credit: JKU
Biosensor; Credit: JKU Many biomarkers can be read from human sweat - a new biosensor for monitoring human metabolism takes advantage of this . A new and improved technology has been developed by researchers at Johannes Kepler University Linz together with colleagues from the USA. The revolutionary sensor technology could be of great importance for both disease diagnostics and fitness monitoring. The problem so far: conventional monitoring devices often have high energy requirements and usually involve considerable physical activity to generate enough sweat to stimulate the biosensors. Too little sweat, on the other hand, does not allow multifunctional analysis. In a collaboration between JKU (Department of Soft Matter Physics as well as LIT Soft Material Lab; Head: Prof. Martin Kaltenbrunner ) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena (California, USA), a groundbreaking wearable skin sensor has now been developed that enables continuous monitoring of metabolism by analyzing body sweat, powered solely by a lightweight and flexible solar cell. Proprietary solar material developed.
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