A wearable conductivity sensor for wireless real-time sweat monitoring

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 227, Issue , 2016, Pages 35-42

  Liu, G ^a   Ho, C ^b   Slappey, N ^b   Zhou, Z ^b   Snelgrove, S E ^b   Brown, M ^b   Grabinski, A ^b   Guo, X ^c   Chen, Y ^b   Miller, K ^b   Edwards, J ^b   Kaya, T ^b  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductivity sensor; Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy; Physiological monitoring; Sweat sensing; Wearable device

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROCHANNELS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; SILICONES; SPECTROSCOPY; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CONDUCTIVITY SENSORS; INTERFACING CIRCUITS; NON-INVASIVE MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; SWEAT SENSING; WEARABLE DEVICES;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84951263592     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2015.12.034     Document Type: Article

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