Inexpensive and flexible nanographene-based electrodes for ubiquitous electrocardiogram monitoring

Cheap graphene electrodes for biosignal monitoring A cheap graphene foam electrode has been shown to deliver both accurate acquisition and efficient processing of biosignal to enable next generation medical and wearable devices. A team led by Dr Francisco Romero from University of Granada, Spain dev...

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Main Authors: Francisco J. Romero, Encarnacion Castillo, Almudena Rivadeneyra, Alejandro Toral-Lopez, Markus Becherer, Francisco G. Ruiz, Noel Rodriguez, Diego P. Morales
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-06-01
Series:npj Flexible Electronics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-019-0056-2
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Summary:Cheap graphene electrodes for biosignal monitoring A cheap graphene foam electrode has been shown to deliver both accurate acquisition and efficient processing of biosignal to enable next generation medical and wearable devices. A team led by Dr Francisco Romero from University of Granada, Spain develops a one-step and inexpensive method to make electrophysical electrodes for biocompatible signal transduction. They employ low diode lasers to selectively induce highly porous structures in the graphene foam on a flexible substrate. When combined with a clustering algorithm, the graphene foam electrodes can effectively suppress the artifact and noise signals and extract heart beat pattern with more than 90% accuracy. These results present delicate balance between the high accuracy data acquisition and efficient data processing, which are both important for the elemental devices in the internet-of-things paradigm.
ISSN:2397-4621