Engineers reveal a method that turns conventional clothing into biosensors
Assistant professor of Chemical engineering, ‘Huanan Zhang,’ has developed a process that turns clothing fabric into biosensors that measure a muscle’s electrical activity as it is worn. His new technology was recently detailed in a paper published in the science journal, APL Materials. The paper, “Gold and silver nanocomposite-based biostable and biocompatible electronic textile for wearable electromyographic biosensors,” was co-authored by University of Utah chemical engineering graduate student, Taehwan Lim, and Sohee Lee from the Department of Clothing and Textiles at Gyeongsang National University in South Korea. “This new method allows clinicians to more accurately collect long-term electrical signals from…