Facile Fabrication of “Tacky”, Stretchable, and Aligned Carbon Nanotube Sheet-Based Electronics for On-Skin Health Monitoring

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Nguyen, Duy Van
Mills, Dean
Tran, Canh-Dung
Nguyen, Thanh
Nguyen, Hung
Tran, Thi Lap
Song, Pingan
Phan, Hoang-Phuong
Nguyen, Nam-Trung
Dao, Dzung Viet
Bell, John
Dinh, Toan
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2023
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Point-of-care monitoring of physiological signals such as electrocardiogram, electromyogram, and electroencephalogram is essential for prompt disease diagnosis and quick treatment, which can be realized through advanced skin-worn electronics. However, it is still challenging to design an intimate and nonrestrictive skin-contact device for physiological measurements with high fidelity and artifact tolerance. This research presents a facile method using a “tacky” surface to produce a tight interface between the ACNT skin-like electronic and the skin. The method provides the skin-worn electronic with a stretchability of up to 70% strain, greater than that of most common epidermal electrodes. Low-density ACNT bundles facilitate the infiltration of adhesive and improve the conformal contact between the ACNT sheet and the skin, while dense ACNT bundles lessen this effect. The stretchability and conformal contact allow the ACNT sheet-based electronics to create a tight interface with the skin, which enables the high-fidelity measurement of physiological signals (the Pearson’s coefficient of 0.98) and tolerance for motion artifacts. In addition, our method allows the use of degradable substrates to enable reusability and degradability of the electronics based on ACNT sheets, integrating “green” properties into on-skin electronics.

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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c13541

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Chemical sciences

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aligned carbon nanotubes

degradability

electrophysiology

on-skin electronics

reusability

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Nguyen, DV; Mills, D; Tran, C-D; Nguyen, T; Nguyen, H; Tran, TL; Song, P; Phan, H-P; Nguyen, N-T; Dao, DV; Bell, J; Dinh, T, Facile Fabrication of “Tacky”, Stretchable, and Aligned Carbon Nanotube Sheet-Based Electronics for On-Skin Health Monitoring, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023

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