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New Smart Fabrics With Bioactive Inks Monitor Body, Environment by Changing Color

Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the body.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

Researchers at Tufts University’s School of Engineering have developed biomaterial-based inks that respond to and quantify chemicals released from the body (e.g. in sweat and potentially other biofluids) or in the surrounding environment by changing color.    The inks can be screen printed onto textiles such as clothes, shoes, or even face masks in complex patterns and at high resolution, providing a detailed map of human response or exposure.    The advance in wearable sensing, reported...

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