{"id":144607,"date":"2022-08-22T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/mit-engineers-develop-a-chip-free-wireless-electronic-skin-to-monitor-health"},"modified":"2022-08-22T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:23:06","slug":"mit-engineers-develop-a-chip-free-wireless-electronic-skin-to-monitor-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/mit-engineers-develop-a-chip-free-wireless-electronic-skin-to-monitor-health","title":{"rendered":"MIT engineers develop a chip-free, wireless electronic skin to monitor health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-develop-a-chip-free-wireless-electronic-skin-to-monitor-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a significant development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have developed a new category of wireless wearable skin-like sensors for health monitoring that doesn\u2019t require batteries or an internal processor.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s sensor design is a form of electronic skin, or \u201ce-skin\u201d \u2014 a flexible, semiconducting film that conforms to the <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/artificial-skin-human-cells-robots\" title=\"skin like electronic\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">skin like electronic<\/a> Scotch tape, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2022\/sensor-electronic-chipless-0818\" title=\"a press release\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">a press release<\/a> published by MIT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is any change in the pulse, or chemicals in sweat, or even ultraviolet exposure to skin, all of this activity can change the pattern of surface acoustic waves on the gallium nitride film,\u201d said Yeongin Kim, study\u2019s first author, and a former MIT postdoc scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have developed a new category of wireless wearable skin-like sensors for health monitoring that doesn\u2019t require batteries or an internal processor. The team\u2019s sensor design is a form of electronic skin, or \u201ce-skin\u201d \u2014 a flexible, semiconducting film that conforms to the skin like electronic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144607","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}