Key Laboratory of Control of Quality and Safety for Aquatic Products, Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing 100141, China
Dr. Lidong Wu
Key Laboratory of Control of Quality and Safety for Aquatic Products, Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing 100141, China
Affinity-based biosensing can enable point-of-care diagnostics and continuous health monitoring, which commonly follows bottom-up approaches and is inherently constrained by bioprobes’ intrinsic properties, batch-to-batch consistency, and stability in biofluids. We present a biomimetic top-down platform to circumvent such difficulties by combining a “dual-monolayer” biorecognition construct with graphene-based field-effect-transistor arrays. The construct adopts redesigned water-soluble membrane receptors as specific sensing units, positioned by two-dimensional crystalline S-layer proteins as dense antifouling linkers guiding their orientations. Hundreds of transistors provide statistical significance from transduced signals. System feasibility was demonstrated with rSbpA-ZZ/CXCR4 QTY -Fc combination. Nature-like specific interactions were achieved toward CXCL12 ligand and HIV coat glycoprotein in physiologically relevant concentrations, without notable sensitivity loss in 100% human serum. The construct is regeneratable by acidic buffer, allowing device reuse and functional tuning. The modular and generalizable architecture behaves similarly to natural systems but gives electrical outputs, which enables fabrication of multiplex sensors with tailored receptor panels for designated diagnostic purposes.
Highly stretchable and robust strain sensors are rapidly emerging as promising candidates for a diverse of wearable electronics. The main challenge for the practical application of wearable electronics is the energy consumption and device aging. Energy consumption mainly depends on the conductivity of the sensor, and it is a key factor in determining device aging. Here, we design a liquid metal (LM)‐embedded hydrogel as a sensing material to overcome the barrier of energy consumption and device aging of wearable electronics. The sensing material simultaneously exhibits high conductivity (up to 22 S m−1), low elastic modulus (23 kPa), and ultrahigh stretchability (1500%) with excellent robustness (consistent performance against 12 000 mechanical cycling). A motion monitoring system is composed of intrinsically soft LM‐embedded hydrogel as sensing material, a microcontroller, signal‐processing circuits, Bluetooth transceiver, and self‐organizing map developed software for the visualization of multi‐dimensional data. This system integrating multiple functions including signal conditioning, processing, and wireless transmission achieves monitor hand gesture as well as sign‐to‐verbal translation. This approach provides an ideal strategy for deaf‐mute communicating with normal people and broadens the application of wearable electronics. image