Abstract
Development of sensing technology with wearable chemical sensors is realizing non-invasive, real-time monitoring healthcare and disease diagnostics. The advanced sensor devices should be compact and portable for use in limited space, easy to wear on human body, and low-cost for personalized healthcare markets. Here, we report a highly sensitive, flexible, and autonomously self-healable pH sensor cable developed by weaving together two carbon fiber thread electrodes coated with mechanically robust self-healing polymers. The pH sensor cable showed excellent electrochemical performances of sensitivity, repeatability, and durability. Spontaneous and autonomous sensor healing efficiency of the pH sensor cable was demonstrated by measuring sensitivity during four cycles of cutting and healing process. The pH sensor cable could measure pH in small volumes of real human fluid samples, including urine, saliva, and sweat, and the results were similar to those of a commercial pH meter. Taken together, successful real-time pH monitoring for human sweat was demonstrated by fabricating a wearable sensing system in which the pH sensor cable was knitted into a headband integrated with wireless electronics.
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