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Optical Urea Sensing in Sweat for Kidney Healthcare by Sensitive and Selective Non-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara, Assim Boukhayma, Ata Jedari Golparvar

Sweat biomarker analysis has attracted much interest in applications ranging from sports to wearable healthcare. Among all the sweat biomolecules, abnormal urea levels have been linked to several complications, particularly renal dysfunction. Here, we repo ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2023

Multisensing wearables for real-time monitoring of sweat electrolyte biomarkers during exercise and analysis on their correlation with core body temperature

Danick Briand, Silvia Demuru, Jaemin Kim, Brince Paul Kunnel

Sweat secreted by the human eccrine sweat glands can provide valuable biomarker information during exercise. Real-time non-invasive biomarker recordings are therefore useful for evaluating the physiological conditions of an athlete such as their hydration ...

2023

Configurable Organic Electrochemical Transistors with Printed Functional Materials for Multiplexed Sweat Analysis

Silvia Demuru

Monitoring human sweat with wearable biochemical sensors could give insights into the hydration, fatigue, and health status, tracking the variations of biomarkers non-invasively and in real-time. In this field, organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) a ...

EPFL2022

Printed Iontophoretic‐Integrated Wearable Microfluidic Sweat‐Sensing Patch for On‐Demand Point‐Of‐Care Sweat Analysis

Danick Briand, Silvia Demuru, Brince Paul Kunnel

In recent years, wearable epidermal sweat sensors have received extensive attention owing to their great potential to provide personalized information on the health status of individuals at the molecular level. For on‐demand medical analysis of sweat in se ...

Wiley2021

Hardware and Software Interfaces Design for Multi-Panel Electrochemical Sensors

Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra

The exponential growth of wearable healthcare devices market is fostered by the internetof- things (IoT) era. Connected smart biosensors enable a decentralized healthcare that does not constrain the user to be in a medical facility to get a real-time insig ...

EPFL2021

Wearable systems for measuring sweat rate and methods of using the same

Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Junrui Zhang

Presented herein are systems and methods for measuring sweat rate of a subject using a wearable system. A sweat rate may be determined automatically based on one or more signals produced by a wetting sensor module in response to a presence of sweat in the ...

2021

A Wearable Autonomous Colorimetric Sweat Induction System for Sweat Analysis

Silvia Demuru, Brince Paul Kunnel

The wearable biochemical sweat sensor's capability to provide insight into molecular information of health dynamics ignites sweat analysis as a promising noninvasive diagnosis scheme for precision medicine. Here, we demonstrate, for the first time, a color ...

IEEE2021

ANTIGONE: A Programmable Energy-Efficient Current Digitizer for an ISFET Wearable Sweat Sensing System

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Evgenia Voulgari

This article describes the design and the characterization of the ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) built in AMS 0.35 m technology for low dc-current sensing. This energy-efficient ASIC was specifically d ...

2021

Multi-ion-sensing emulator and multivariate calibration optimization by machine learning models

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Criscuolo, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra

One paramount challenge in multi-ion-sensing arises from ion interference that degrades the accuracy of sensor calibration. Machine learning models are here proposed to optimize such multivariate calibration. However, the acquisition of big experimental da ...

2021

Electrochemical determination of nicotine in smokers' sweat

Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic, Eda Mehmeti

In this work, we report the demonstration of the capability of electrochemical sensors to provide measurements directly on the sweat of volunteers to successfully discriminate heavy smokers by light ones. Since its importance as pharmaceutical treatment-ag ...

ELSEVIER2020

A 3D printed wearable device for sweat analysis

Sandro Carrara

This work presents a wearable microfluidic device for sweat analysis. The purpose of this device is to collect sweat from the skin and convey it to the sensor. The device is printed by a 3D printer with Multi-Jet Modelling (MJM) technology using flexible m ...

IEEE2020

Microfluidics by Additive Manufacturing for Wearable Biosensors: A Review

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara

Wearable devices are nowadays at the edge-front in both academic research as well as in industry, and several wearable devices have been already introduced in the market. One of the most recent advancements in wearable technologies for biosensing is in the ...

2020

Sweat monitoring with CMOS compatible technology: ISFETS and beyond

Francesco Bellando

In recent years, sweat has gained increasing attention from the scientific community as a new analyte for health monitoring. The main advantage with respect to the "Gold Standard" for laboratory analysis, i.e. blood, is of course the possibility of perform ...

EPFL2020

Wearable multifunctional sweat-sensing system for efficient healthcare monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo, Nicolò Oliva, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Simone Aiassa

Despite the huge expansion in recent years of sweat sensing and wearable technologies, several challenges are still open, including poor sample collection, separate sampling and analysis, low multi-sensing capabilities and materials toxicity. In this work, ...

Elsevier2020

Real-Time Multi-Ion Detection in the Sweat Concentration Range Enabled by Flexible, Printed, and Microfluidics-Integrated Organic Transistor Arrays

Danick Briand, Silvia Demuru, Brince Paul Kunnel

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) show remarkable promise as biosensors, thanks to their high signal amplification, simple architecture, and the intrinsic flexibility of the organic material. Despite these properties, their use for real-time sens ...

Wiley2020

Dissolved major and trace geochemical dynamics in Antarctic lacustrine systems

Tyler Joe Kohler

Clearwater Mesa Uames Ross Island, northeast Antarctic Peninsula) provides a unique opportunity to study solute dynamics and geochemical weathering in the pristine lacustrine systems of a high latitude environment. In order to determine major controls on t ...

Elsevier2020

Wearable System for Real-Time Sensing of Biomarkers in Human Sweat

Junrui Zhang

Wearable sweat sensing systems offer non-invasive and real-time bio-data streaming solutions. They open the possibility for continuous monitoring of biomarkers' concentrations as well as their variation in sweat, which is a complementary to current passive ...

EPFL2019

A programmable low-power ADC interface for an ISFET sweat sensor used in a wearable multi-sensing system

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Evgenia Voulgari

An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) named ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) was designed in AMS 0.35 mu m technology to interface with four Ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) sensors and perform real-time monitoring of some bi ...

IEEE2019

Apparatus for non-invasive sensing of biomarkers in human sweat

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

Presented herein are devices for collecting and/or channeling a biofluid (e.g., sweat, tears, saliva) and detecting and/or quantifying one or more biomarkers in the biofluid. The biomarker(s) may include, for example, ions, salts thereof, hormones and/or s ...

2019

Wearable System with Integrated Passive Microfluidics for Real-Time Electrolyte Sensing in Human Sweat

Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero

Wearable systems embodied as patches could offer noninvasive and real-time solutions for monitoring of biomarkers in human sweat as an alternative to blood testing, with applications in personalized and preventive healthcare. Sweat is considered to be a bi ...

EPFL2018