{"id":190090,"date":"2024-05-25T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/imperceptible-sensors-made-from-electronic-spider-silk-can-be-printed-directly-on-human-skin"},"modified":"2024-05-25T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:33:53","slug":"imperceptible-sensors-made-from-electronic-spider-silk-can-be-printed-directly-on-human-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/imperceptible-sensors-made-from-electronic-spider-silk-can-be-printed-directly-on-human-skin","title":{"rendered":"Imperceptible sensors made from \u2018electronic spider silk\u2019 can be printed directly on human skin"},"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\/l14SvUWGH-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While wearable technologies with embedded sensors, such as smartwatches, are widely available, these devices can be uncomfortable, obtrusive and can inhibit the skin\u2019s intrinsic sensations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to accurately sense anything on a biological surface like skin or a leaf, the interface between the device and the surface is vital,\u201d said Professor Yan Yan Shery Huang from Cambridge\u2019s Department of Engineering, who led the research. \u201cWe also want bioelectronics that are completely imperceptible to the user, so they don\u2019t in any way interfere with how the user interacts with the world, and we want them to be sustainable and low waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple methods for making wearable sensors, but these all have drawbacks. Flexible electronics, for example, are normally printed on plastic films that don\u2019t allow gas or moisture to pass through, so it would be like wrapping your skin in plastic film. Other researchers have recently developed flexible electronics that are gas-permeable, like artificial skins, but these still interfere with normal sensation, and rely on energy-and waste-intensive manufacturing techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While wearable technologies with embedded sensors, such as smartwatches, are widely available, these devices can be uncomfortable, obtrusive and can inhibit the skin\u2019s intrinsic sensations. \u201cIf you want to accurately sense anything on a biological surface like skin or a leaf, the interface between the device and the surface is vital,\u201d said Professor Yan Yan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1499,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-cyborgs","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190090","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}