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Lab on skin™: 3D monolithically integrated zero-energy micro/nanofludics and FD SOI ion sensitive FETs for wearable multi-sensing sweat applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Francesco Bellando

This paper reports a novel fully integrated low power multi-sensing smart system, which, by wafer-level 3D heterogeneous integration of Ion Sensitive Fully Depleted (FD) FETs and SU-8 micro/nanofludics, achieves the first of its kind wearable multi-sensing ...

2017

Virus transfer at the skin-liquid interface

Tamar Kohn, Timothy R. Julian

Understanding virus transfer between liquid and skin is necessary to estimate transmission during water-related activities. In the present study, we modeled virus transfer from liquid-to-skin and skin-to-liquid. Specifically, we performed human subject stu ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Whole genome sequencing distinguishes between relapse and reinfection in recurrent leprosy cases

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh, Jérémie Piton, Chloé Marie Loiseau

Background Since leprosy is both treated and controlled by multidrug therapy (MDT) it is important to monitor recurrent cases for drug resistance and to distinguish between relapse and reinfection as a means of assessing therapeutic efficacy. All three obj ...

Public Library Science2017

Interactive soft pneumatic actuator skin

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Harshal Arun Sonar, Sagar Dattatray Joshi

The interactive soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) skin is a soft wearable device with integrated actuation and sensing. The SPA skin is a flat flexible patch that can be worn on the body, consisting of a 2-D matrix with independent actuation and sensing elemen ...

2017

A Miniature Multimodal Actuator for Effective Tactile Feedback: Design and Characterization

Huaiqi Huang, Tao Li

We designed a miniature multimodal actuator by combining servomotors and vibrators. The actuator is mainly designed to non-invasively deliver tactile information to human skin by high-frequency vibration and low-frequency pressures simultaneously. By utili ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Coreless Open-Loop Current Transducers Based On Hall Effect Sensor Csa-1V

Radivoje Popovic

The paper provides an overview of coreless open-loop current transducers based on Hall effect sensor CSA-1V. Depending on the implementation method and current range, the presented transducers are divided in the four groups. The transducers are capable to ...

Univ Nis2016

Realization and optimization of bus bar current transducers based on Hall effect sensors

Radivoje Popovic

In this paper the realization and optimization of two coreless open-loop bus bar current transducers based on a Hall effect sensor are presented. Two types of bus bar are evaluated: flat rectangular and rectangular with a restrictive region in the middle. ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

A balancing act between stratification and EMT in cultured human thymic epithelial cells

Matteo Pluchinotta

The thymus is the primary organ for T cell differentiation and maturation. Its stroma forms a characteristic sponge-like 3D structure mainly composed of thymic epithelial cells. Despite of this unconventional epithelial architecture, TECs express markers a ...

EPFL2016

Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin with Piezoelectric Sensors for Vibrotactile Feedback

Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar

The latest wearable technologies demand more intuitive and sophisticated interfaces for communication, sensing, and feedback closer to the body. Evidently, such interfaces require flexibility and conformity without losing their functionality even on rigid ...

Frontiers Media Sa2016

Faceted phospholipid vesicles tailored for the delivery of Santolina insularis essential oil to the skin

Davide Demurtas

The aim of this work was to formulate Santolina insularis essential oil-loaded nanocarriers, namely Penetration Enhancer containing Vesicles (PEVs), evaluate the physico-chemical features and stability, and gain insights into their ability to deliver the o ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

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