Wearable Potentiometric Ion Patch for On-Body Electrolyte Monitoring in Sweat: Toward a Validation Strategy to Ensure Physiological RelevanceShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Analytical Chemistry, ISSN 0003-2700, E-ISSN 1520-6882, Vol. 91, no 13, p. 8644-8651Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Herein, the reproducibility and a double validation of on-body measurements provided by new wearable potentiometric ion sensors (WPISs) is presented. Sweat collected during sport practice was first analyzed using the developed device, the pH-meter, and ion chromatography (IC) prior to onbody measurements (off-site validation). Subsequently, the accuracy of onbody measurements accomplished by the WPISs was evaluated by comparison with pH-meter readings and IC after collecting sweat (every 10-12.5 min) during sport practice. The developed device contains sensors for pH, Cl-, K+, and Na+ that are embedded in a flexible sampling cell for sweat analysis. The electrode array was fabricated employing MWCNTs (as an ion-to-electron transducer) and stretchable materials that have been exhaustively characterized in terms of analytical performance, presenting Nernstian slopes within the expected physiological range of each ion analyte (Cl-, 10-100 mM; 10-10 mM; and Na+, 10- 100 mM and pH, 4.5-7.5), drift suitable for midterm exercise practice (0.3 +/- 0.2 mV h(-1)), fast response time, adequate selectivity for sweat measurements, and excellent reversibility. Besides that, the designed sampling cell avoids any sweat contamination and evaporation issues while supplying a passive sweat flow encompassing specifically the individual's perspiration. The interpretation of ion concentration profiles may permit the identification of personal dynamic patterns in sweat composition while practicing sport.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Chemical Society (ACS), 2019. Vol. 91, no 13, p. 8644-8651
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Analytical Chemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-255387DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02126ISI: 000474477900090PubMedID: 31194514Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85068007402OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-255387DiVA, id: diva2:1339929
Note
QC 20220215
2019-08-012019-08-012022-06-26Bibliographically approved