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Researchers at UC Irvine design rate, body temperature or blood pressure
a self-powered health monitor — can be gauged by simply changing the
sensor circuitry, according to the paper’s
Irvine, Calif.– A new self-powered, authors.
wristwatch-style health monitor in-
vented by researchers at the Universi- Self-powered and wireless
ty of California, Irvine can keep track This self-powered and wireless device al-
of a wearer’s pulse and wirelessly lows you to do that without relying on a
communicate with a nearby smart- battery that can lose its charge and has
phone or tablet – without needing an the thermal runaway issue [overheating
external power source or a battery. of lithium-ion batteries that can lead to
combustion],” said senior co-author Rahim
Built with 3D printing Esfandyar-Pour, UCI assistant professor of
In a paper published recently in Nano En- electrical engineering and computer sci-
ergy, team members in UCI’s Henry Sam- ence and biomedical engineering.
ueli School of Engineering describe their “This innovation achieves
invention, built via 3D printing of nanoma- many significant outcomes
terials on flexible substrates for real-time in one package,” Esfandyar-
and wireless monitoring of vital signs. Pour said. “It enables con-
tinuous, battery-free, wire-
The current prototype serves as a self- less and on-demand health
powered radial artery pulse monitor, but monitoring anytime and
other other aspects of health — such as anywhere.” uci.edu
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