{"id":151778,"date":"2022-12-03T23:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T05:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/electronic-nanogenerator-tattoos-as-human-machine-interfaces"},"modified":"2022-12-03T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T05:26:43","slug":"electronic-nanogenerator-tattoos-as-human-machine-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/electronic-nanogenerator-tattoos-as-human-machine-interfaces","title":{"rendered":"Electronic nanogenerator tattoos as human-machine interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electronic-nanogenerator-tattoos-as-human-machine-interfaces2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The field of epidermal electronics, or e-tattoos, covers a wide range of flexible and stretchable monitoring gadgets that are wearable directly on the skin. We have covered this area in multiple Nanowerk Spotlights, for instance stick-on epidermal electronics tattoo to measure UV exposure or tattoo-type biosensors based on graphene; and we also have posted a primer on electronic skin.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the concept of e-tattoos a step further, integrating them with triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), for instance for health monitoring, could lead to next generation wearable nanogenerators and Internet-of-things devices worn directly on and powered by the skin.<\/p>\n<p>In work reported in Advanced Functional Materials (\u201cTriboelectric Nanogenerator Tattoos Enabled by Epidermal Electronic Technologies\u201d), researchers report a tattoo-like TENG (TL-TENG) design with a thickness of tens of micrometers, that can interface with skin without additional adhesive layers, and be used for energy harvesting from daily activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field of epidermal electronics, or e-tattoos, covers a wide range of flexible and stretchable monitoring gadgets that are wearable directly on the skin. We have covered this area in multiple Nanowerk Spotlights, for instance stick-on epidermal electronics tattoo to measure UV exposure or tattoo-type biosensors based on graphene; and we also have posted a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1497,1495,418,4,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-energy","category-health","category-internet","category-nanotechnology","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151778","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}