The on‐body immunodetection of biomarkers in sweat would significantly augment the potential of wearable body‐interfaced biosensors for self‐testing but has been limited due to the difficulty of integrating liquid handling… Click to show full abstract
The on‐body immunodetection of biomarkers in sweat would significantly augment the potential of wearable body‐interfaced biosensors for self‐testing but has been limited due to the difficulty of integrating liquid handling and immunobiosensing devices in a wearable platform. Herein, a stretchable microfluidic immunobiosensor (SMIB) patch with hollow microfibers of elastomeric nanocomposites for the highly sensitive on‐body biosensing of neuropeptide Y (NPY), a stress biomarker, in human sweat is reported. The SMIB patch is composed of a stretchable liquid handling device and an electrochemical impedimetric immunobiosensor made of hollow and conductive microfibers of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and rGO‐Ag nanowires in polyurethane matrix, respectively. The patch possesses a low limit of detection of 50 fm, a large dynamic range (50 fm–1 nm), good linearity, no labeling or reagent requirements, and facile formation in a patch form factor. By combining handling of the biofluid and delivery of the washing solution by a simple finger‐touch operation as well as the analytical capability of NPY with an extremely low concentration in human sweat, the SMIB patch is a promising approach toward wearable non‐invasive immunodetection for self‐testing.
               
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