{"id":126981,"date":"2021-08-31T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T08:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/flexible-carbon-nanotube-fibers-woven-into-clothing-gather-accurate-ekg-heart-rate"},"modified":"2021-08-31T01:24:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T08:24:35","slug":"flexible-carbon-nanotube-fibers-woven-into-clothing-gather-accurate-ekg-heart-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/flexible-carbon-nanotube-fibers-woven-into-clothing-gather-accurate-ekg-heart-rate","title":{"rendered":"Flexible carbon nanotube fibers woven into clothing gather accurate EKG, heart rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YZbcSGvwu4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no need to don uncomfortable smartwatches or chest straps to monitor your heart if your comfy shirt can do a better job.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the idea behind \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/smart+clothing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">smart clothing<\/a>\u201d developed by a Rice University lab, which employed its conductive nanotube thread to weave functionality into regular apparel.<\/p>\n<p>The Brown School of Engineering lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Matteo Pasquali reported in the American Chemical Society journal <i>Nano Letters<\/i> that it sewed nanotube fibers into athletic wear to monitor the heart rate and take a continual electrocardiogram (EKG) of the wearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no need to don uncomfortable smartwatches or chest straps to monitor your heart if your comfy shirt can do a better job. That\u2019s the idea behind \u201csmart clothing\u201d developed by a Rice University lab, which employed its conductive nanotube thread to weave functionality into regular apparel. The Brown School of Engineering lab of chemical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}