‘Electronic skin’ patch will do many thingsAugust 12th, 2011 -
7:05 pm ICT by IANS London, Aug 12 (IANS) American scientists
have created little patches of ‘electronic skin’ that might heal
wounds and monitor a patient’s heart rate in the near future.
“What we are trying to do here is to really reshape and redefine
electronics…to look a lot more like the human body, in this case
the surface layers of the skin,” said John A. Rogers of the
University of Illinois, US. “The goal is really to blur the
distinction between electronics and biological tissue,” he said,
Researchers implanted sensors in a film thinner than a human
hair, which was placed on a polyester backing like those used
for the temporary tattoos popular with children, reports the
journal Science. The result was a sensor that was flexible
enough to move with the skin and would stick without glue,
according to the daily Telegraph. Researchers said the devices
could stick up to 24 hours. While normal shedding of skin cells
would cause the monitors to