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Leni Zhong1,2, Lixue Tang1, Shuaijian Yang1
1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Biomaterials, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Smart Healthcare Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, No. 1088 Xueyuan Rd, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong518055, China.
Abstract:
We reported a straightforward and low-cost method to fabricate stretchable biofuel cells by using liquid metal-based metal-polymer conductors. The liquid-metal-based metal-polymer conductors had a conductivity of 2.7 × 105 S/m and a stretchability larger than 200%, giving the biofuel cell good conformability to the skin. The glucose biofuel cells (BFCs) yielded a maximum power density as 14.11 μW/cm2 at 0.31 V with 0.2 mM glucose, while the lactate BFCs reached 31.00 μW/cm2 at 0.51 V with 15 mM lactate. The results of 24 h short circuit current density showed that, with enough biofuel, this patch could be used over the course of an entire day for wearable sensors.
