{"id":33645,"date":"2017-01-20T00:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T08:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/thinnest-ever-electronic-tattoos-are-capable-of-precision-health-monitoring"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:56:31","slug":"thinnest-ever-electronic-tattoos-are-capable-of-precision-health-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/thinnest-ever-electronic-tattoos-are-capable-of-precision-health-monitoring","title":{"rendered":"Thinnest-ever electronic tattoos are capable of precision health monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The graphene temporary tattoo seen here is the thinnest epidermal electronic device ever and according to the University of Texas at Austin researchers who developed it, the device can take some medical measurements as accurately as bulky wearable sensors like EKG monitors. From IEEE Spectrum<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Graphene\u2019s conformity to the skin might be what enables the high-quality measurements. Air gaps between the skin and the relatively large, rigid electrodes used in conventional medical devices degrade these instruments\u2019 signal quality. Newer sensors that stick to the skin and stretch and wrinkle with it have fewer airgaps, but because they\u2019re still a few micrometers thick, and use gold electrodes hundreds of nanometers thick, they can lose contact with the skin when it wrinkles. The graphene in the Texas researchers\u2019 device is 0.3-nm thick. Most of the tattoo\u2019s bulk comes from the 463-nm-thick polymer support.<\/p>\n

The next step is to add an antenna to the design so that signals can be beamed off the device to a phone or computer, says (electrical engineer Deji) Akinwande.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The graphene temporary tattoo seen here is the thinnest epidermal electronic device ever and according to the University of Texas at Austin researchers who developed it, the device can take some medical measurements as accurately as bulky wearable sensors like EKG monitors. From IEEE Spectrum: Graphene\u2019s conformity to the skin might be what enables the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1495,1512,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33645","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59065,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33645\/revisions\/59065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}