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Hollow Microneedle-based Sensor for Multiplexed Transdermal Electrochemical Sensing
Published on: June 1, 2012
Microinterventional in-sensor computing system for real-time metabolic health assessment
Peidi Fan1,2, Haitao Zhang3, Xiaoyu Su1,2
1Laboratory of Agricultural Information Intelligent Sensing, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China.
Abstract:
Microneedle biosensors enable dynamic monitoring of interstitial fluid biomarkers, but remain constrained by sensing interface susceptibility to motion artifacts and the prohibitive energy consumption of wireless cloud-based processing. Here, we report a bio-inspired, self-anchoring microinterventional in-sensor computing system. By leveraging a starfish-inspired suction cup-microneedle self-anchoring mechanism, the system effectively counteracts microneedle extrusion, attenuating signal fluctuations by 38-fold and enhancing signal intensity by up to 5.49-fold compared to conventional planar devices. Crucially, the high-fidelity data acquisition reduces the computational burden, enabling the deployment of a lightweight algorithm (43 KB) on a coin-sized embedded circuit, achieving 98.68% diagnostic accuracy and a 120-h battery life via local closed-loop feedback. Validation in a porcine model confirmed the system's capability to capture continuous biochemical dynamics. This co-design of a robust biomimetic interface and lightweight deep learning paves the way for next-generation wearables capable of performing high-fidelity, on-chip metabolic risk stratification in dynamic daily settings.

