Wireless Acoustic Sensors: Stretchable Composite Acoustic Transducer for Wearable Monitoring of Vital Signs (Adv. Funct. Mater. 16/2020)
Yasin Çotur, Michael Kasimatis, Matti Kaisti, Selin Olenik, Charis Georgiou, Firat Güder · Advanced Functional Materials · 2020
In article number 1910288, Yasin Cotur, Firat Güder, and co-workers develop a flexible, stretchable, water-silicone composite for acoustic transduction, which enables high performance real-time monitoring of vital signs over layers of clothing (or furry skin of animals). The method is based on an entirely new method of fabrication that involves encapsulation of water with silicones and exploits the ability of sound waves to travel through the body.