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Fabrication and Application of Low Cost Flexible Film-Based Sensors to Environmental and Biomedical Monitoring Scenarios

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The paper describes the development of flexible lightweight highly sensitive film-based sensors capable of monitoring pressure, deformation, temperature and humidity. In particular, we present a family of the developed simple devices that successfully adopted polycarbonate films covered with organic molecular conductors as conductive sensing components. Proof-of-concept experiments with these prototypes demonstrate that such bi layer films are promising as sensing devices for the environment and biomedical monitoring. Besides, we present the interfacing of the flexible film-based sensor with a wireless sensor node and evaluate the sensing capability of this system in a real monitoring scenario.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the financial support from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, through “Acciones CIBER.” The Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), an initiative funded by theVINational R&D&I Plan 2008–2011, Iniciativa Ingenio 2010, Consolider Program, CIBER Actions and financed by the Instituto de Salud Carlos IIIwith assistance from the European Regional Development Fund. The authors also appreciate the financial support through the projects: BE-WELL (CTQ2013–40480-R) granted by DGI (Spain), and GenCat (2014-SGR-17) financed by DGR (Catalunya), the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research under contracts FP7-OCEAN-2013-614155, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation Grant RFMEFI57714X0133.

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  1. Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain

    Vladimir Laukhin, Victor Lebedev, Elena Laukhina, Concepcio Rovira & Jaume Veciana

  2. CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

    Vladimir Laukhin, Elena Laukhina, Concepcio Rovira & Jaume Veciana

  3. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

    Vladimir Laukhin

  4. CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

    Andrey Somov

  5. ‘MATI’-Russian State Technological University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Baranov

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Laukhin, V. et al. (2016). Fabrication and Application of Low Cost Flexible Film-Based Sensors to Environmental and Biomedical Monitoring Scenarios. In: Mandler, B., et al. Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. IoT360 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 170. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47075-7_25

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