What’s next for wearable technologies?
Research 30th October 2017

In recent years millions of people have adopted the use of wearable technologies. Devices that monitor everything from heart rate, eating habits and activity levels to weight and sleeping patterns have now become the norm in our daily lives.

This now begs the question what is next in terms of wearable technology? The apparel industry has estimated that annual sales of apparel products is worth $3 trillion with over 50 billion units and 20% of all apparel will be integrated with electronics by 2020. Therefore e-textiles are considered a key opportunity for future growth of wearable devices.

Graphene, the world’s first two-dimensional material is one million times thinner than a human hair, flexible, transparent and more conductive than copper, making it an ideal material for wearable technology, with the potential to create the next generation of devices currently limited to science fiction.

The main challenge for wearables is to create products that not only work but also are comfortable and don’t inhibit performance.

In order to combat this, the key trend in the e-textiles market is moving away from stitched electronics to fully integrating the technology into the actual garment by using inkjet printing methods.

However, this comes with its challenges. Textiles are among the most difficult substrates not only to print on but also to achieve electrically conductive features due to their rough, porous and uneven surface. The current methods used are also expensive, environmentally unfriendly and not biocompatible.

Researchers from The University of Manchester, led by Dr Nazmul Karim at the National Graphene Institute have demonstrated the first all inkjet-printed graphene e-textiles. This will enable the printing of flexible, comfortable and potentially more environmental friendly graphene wearable sensors on a garment by using simple inkjet printing technique.

In this instance the team have been able to demonstrate the printing of graphene sensors directly onto the fabric which can measure your heart rate and potentially temperature, activity and sleeping patterns all in real time. This leads for potential uses in sportswear, medical and defence applications.

Being able to re-engineer the surface of the textile allows for more precise printing using lower temperatures and without damaging heat sensitive fabrics.

But the future of graphene in e-textiles doesn’t stop at sensors. Previous research published by Dr Karim, has shown the potential of printing flexible battery-like devices directly onto textiles without the need for bulky battery packs.

Further research and development would even enable printing of tiny micro energy storage devices on a flexible garment that can power next generation wearable devices.

One of the fundamental challenges not only for the e-textile industry but also the electronics industry is the further miniaturisation of electronic devices. Making products that are lighter, smaller but without compromising on performance.

Graphene and the wider 2D materials family have the potential to provide solutions to these problems. Allowing us to building tailor-made materials to meet a specific purpose, with the ability to potentially reinvent the wearables technology industry as we know it.

http://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/graphene/2017/10/whats-next-for-wearable-technologies/

Some good clips on graphene in this vid:

16min

Is Graphene the essance of Elon Musk's neurolace?


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https://stateofthenation.co/?p=72097

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/chem.202001429

Chemistry – A European JournalVolume 26, Issue 71 p. 17069-17080
Full Paper
On-Demand Hydrophobic Drug Release Based on Microwave-Responsive Graphene Hydrogel Scaffolds


"The first 915 MHz microwave (MW) responsive soft scaffold is herein presented. The hydrated nature of the scaffold allows MW-induced water motion inside the network to increase mobility of model hydrophobic drug, eventually leading to improved drug delivery. The graphene embedded in the hydrogel matrix acts as a heat sink during MW exposure and prevents overheating of the scaffold, pointing these hydrogels as suitable candidates for on-demand remote drug delivery. The material can find applications in the biomedical field, such as bioimplants, tissue engineering or 3D cell culture."

Injectable biosensors that can stream a patient’s personal medical data to smartphones and the cloud are being developed by researchers at bioengineering company Profusa.

Test results show that the tiny sensors have overcome the barriers of local inflammation and scar tissue from the so-called ‘foreign body response’ which has previously prevented the development of in-body sensors for long-term monitoring.

Profusa chief technology officer and co-founder Dr Natalie Wisniewski, who leads the team of biosensor developers, said: “While fitness trackers and other wearables provide insights into our heart rate, respiration and other physical measures, they don’t provide information on the most important aspect of our health: our body’s chemistry.

“Based on our ongoing studies, tissue-integrated sensor technology has the potential to enable wearables to live up to the promise of personalised medicine, revolutionising the management of health in wellness and disease.”

Conventional sensors, such as those found in continuous glucose monitors, have a sensing electrode wire that penetrates the skin to measure a target chemical in the fluid that surrounds cells. This triggers what is known as a foreign body response as the patient’s body views the electrode as a foreign object that needs to be removed. To avoid the effects of the resulting inflammation and formation of scar tissue, the electrode needs to be removed and replaced within several days at a different location in order to keep functioning accurately.

The researchers at Profusa are developing a family of tiny biosensors composed of a tissue-like hydrogel, similar to a soft contact lens, that are painlessly placed under the skin with a single injection. Rather than being isolated from the body, the biosensors work fully integrated within the body’s tissue, without any metal device or electronics, thereby overcoming the body’s attempts to reject it. To date, the injected biosensors have functioned for as long as four years.

Each biosensor is a flexible fibre, about 5mm long and 0.5mm wide, comprised of a porous scaffold that induces capillary and cellular ingrowth from surrounding tissue. The hydrogel is linked to light-emitting fluorescent molecules that continuously signal in proportion to the concentration of a body chemical, such as oxygen, glucose, or other biomolecules of interest.

A separate optical reader stuck to the skin’s surface or held by hand is used to read the fluorescent signal from the embedded biosensor. The reader sends excitation signals through the skin to the biosensor, which then emits fluorescent light in response to the biomolecule present. The data is then relayed to a smartphone for an encrypted personal record and historical tracking. Data can be shared securely via digital networks with healthcare providers.


The first medical application for Profusa’s biosensor technology was the Lumee Oxygen Platform, which was approved for sale last year in Europe. It is currently helping wound-healing specialists track oxygen in the lower extremities of patients undergoing treatment for chronic limb ischemia. The device is aimed at avoiding amputations by providing information to caregivers about declining oxygen levels in a patient’s limb.

In addition to measuring oxygen, Wisniewski and her colleagues are developing biosensors for the continuous monitoring of glucose, lactate, carbon dioxide, and other molecules, with the aim of broadening their biosensor applications.


https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/injectable-body-sensors-stream-medical-data-smartphones/

Former Pfizer Rep, Karen Kingston, shows the Moderna patent proving graphene is in the shot!

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https://rumble.com/vnsi1x-receipts-patents-expose-medical-devices-in-jab-injectable-computing-system.html

KJ Osborne's take on what's going on with these jabs. He's an anti-organized religion Protestant, so keep that in mind. But he makes some good videos. He's actually the one who woke me up to the idea of the "Beast system" being constructed before us.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/NHUVhd1nAe9f/

It's getting throttled on Bitchute and won't play.  :/

Here's one with pics today on the microbiota in the various brands of gene editing serums plus graphene from the scientists at La Quinta Columna:

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https://rumble.com/vnt54z-observations-of-possible-microbiota-in-covid-mrna-vaccines-by-dr.-pablo-cam.html