Wearable biosensors as a user-friendly measurement platform have become a rapidly growing field of interests due to their possibility in integrating traditional medical diagnostics and healthcare management into miniature lab-on-body analytic devices. This paper demonstrates a flexible and skin-mounted band that combines superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic microarrays with nanodendritic colorimetric biosensors toward in situ sweat sampling and analysis. Particularly, on the superwettable bands, the superhydrophobic background could confine microdroplets into superhydrophilic microwells. On-body investigations further reveal that the secreted sweat is repelled by the superhydrophobic silica coating and precisely collected and sampled onto the superhydrophilic micropatterns with negligible lateral spreading, which provides an independent “vessel” toward cellphone-based sweat biodetection (pH, chloride, glucose and calcium). Such wearable, superwettable band-based biosensors with improved interface controllability could significantly enhance epidemical sweat sampling in well-defined sites, holding a great promise for facile and noninvasive biofluids analysis.

Wearable sweat sensors have spearheaded the thrust toward personalized health monitoring with continuous, real-time, and molecular-level insight in a noninvasive manner. However, effective sweat sampling still remains a huge challenge. Here, we introduce an intelligent Janus textile band that bridges the gap between self-pumping sweat collection, comfortable epidemic microclimate, and sensitive electrochemical biosensing via an integrated wearable platform. The dominant sweat sampling configuration is a textile with Janus wettability, which is fabricated by electrospinning a hydrophobic polyurethane (PU) nanofiber array onto superhydrophilic gauze. Based on a contact-pumping model, the Janus textile can unidirectionally and thoroughly transport sweat from skin (hydrophobic side) to embedded electrode surface (hydrophilic side) with epidemic comfort. On-body experimentation reveals that the sensitive detection of multiple biomarkers including glucose, lactate, K + , and Na + is achieved in the pumped sweat. Such smart Janus textile bands can effectively drain epidermal sweat to targeted assay sites via interface modifications, representing a reinforced and controlled biofluids analysis pathway with physiological comfort.

Wearable sweat sensors with various sensing systems can provide noninvasive medical diagnostics and healthcare monitoring. Here, we demonstrate a wearable microfluidic nanoplasmonic sensor capable of refreshable and portable recognition fingerprint information of targeted biomarkers including urea, lactate, and pH in sweat. A miniature, thin plasmonic metasurface with homogeneous mushroom-shaped hot spots and high surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity is designed and integrated into a microfluidics platform. Compared to conventional wearable SERS platforms with the risk of mixed effect between new and old sweat, the microfluidic SERS system allows sweat administration in a controllable and high temporal-resolution fashion, providing refreshable SERS analysis. We use a portable and customized Raman analyzer with a friendly human-machine interface for portable recognition of the spectroscopic signatures of sweat biomarkers. This study integrates epidermal microfluidics with portable SERS molecular recognition, presenting a controllable, handy, and dynamical biofluid sensing system for personalized medicine.

Recent advances in wearable sweat sensors with noninvasive health monitoring capabilities have provided enormous potential for point-of-care testing (POCT) diagnostics and personalized medicine. In this paper, we present a flexible,...