Ultraflexible, large-area, physiological temperature sensors for multipoint measurements

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 47, 2015, Pages 14533-14538

  Yokotaa, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Inouea, Yusuke ^a,b   Terakawaa, Yuki ^a   Reedera, Jonathan ^a,c   Kaltenbrunnera, Martin ^a,b   Wared, Taylor ^c   Yange, Kejia ^d   Mabuchif, Kunihiko ^a   Murakawag, Tomohiro ^e   Sekinoa, Masaki ^a,b   Voitc, Walter ^c   Sekitania, Tsuyoshi ^a,b,f   Someyaa, Takao ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomedical devices; Flexible electronics; Organic electronics; Temperature sensor

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; POLYMER; SEMICRYSTALLINE ACRYLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORE TEMPERATURE; IN VIVO STUDY; NANOFABRICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; GRAPHITE; POLYMERS; RATS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84947996444     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515650112     Document Type: Article

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