Smart bandage designed to detect infection
19th May 2021 10:34 am 19th May 2021 10:34 am Researchers at the University of Rhode Island, USA, are developing a smart bandage that could detect and monitor infection in wounds. The smart bandage held by tweezers. Photo by Negar Rahmani The non-invasive method, created by URI assistant Professor Daniel Roxbury and former URI graduate student Mohammad Moein Safaee, involves embedding nanosensors in the fibres of a bandage. Roxbury explained that through single-walled carbon nanotubes within the bandage concentrations of hydrogen peroxide can be detected in order to identify an infectio...
Source: theengineer.co.uk