Bio Focus: Ionic liquid gels enable wearable bioelectronics sensors

Wearable Bio and Chemical Sensors

Chemical and biochemical sensors have experienced tremendous growth in the past decade due to advances in material chemistry combined with the emergence of digital communication technologies and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) [1]. The emergence of wearable chemical and biochemical sensors is a relatively new concept that poses unique challenges to the field of wearable sensing. This is because...

One-Step Two-Factor Authentication with Wearable Bio-Sensors

Two-step verification does not imply two-factor authentication. Conversely, two-factor authentication may not require two-step verification. With ubiquitous bio-sensors, we can strive for one-step two-factor authentication for wearable computing applications.

Ionic Liquid-Based Optical and Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Sensors

Due to their unusual physicochemical properties (e.g., high thermal stability, low volatility, high intrinsic conductivity, wide electrochemical windows and good solvating ability), ionic liquids have shown immense application potential in many research areas. Applications of ionic liquid in developing various sensors, especially for the sensing of biomolecules, such as nucleic acids, proteins ...

Responsive ionic liquid-polymer 2D photonic crystal gas sensors.

We developed novel air-stable 2D polymerized photonic crystal (2DPC) sensing materials for visual detection of gas phase analytes such as water and ammonia by utilizing a new ionic liquid, ethylguanidine perchlorate (EGP) as the mobile phase. Because of the negligible ionic liquid vapor pressure these 2DPC sensors are indefinitely air stable and, therefore, can be used to sense atmospheric anal...

Bio-Electronics and Bio-sensors