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Area of Science:

  • Biocompatible electronics
  • Soft microfluidics
  • Electrochemical biosensors

Background:

  • Interdisciplinary advances in materials, mechanics, and microsystem designs have enabled new possibilities for wearable health monitoring.
  • Thin, skin-interfaced platforms are emerging for continuous physiological measurements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review scientific and technical progress in skin-interfaced platforms for sweat analysis.
  • To highlight the implications of these platforms in various real-world contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Review of recent interdisciplinary advances in materials, mechanics, and microsystem designs.
  • Focus on platforms for capturing, storing, and measuring sweat chemistry, sweat rate, and sweat loss.

Main Results:

  • Establishment of emerging classes of thin, skin-interfaced platforms.
  • Capability for quantitative, spatiotemporal measurements of sweat parameters.
  • Potential for real-time and ambulatory deployment during physical activities.

Conclusions:

  • Skin-interfaced platforms represent a significant advancement in wearable health monitoring.
  • These technologies have broad implications for clinical health, physiology research, fitness, and athletic performance.