Enhanced sensitivity of skin-mounted biochips using cold plasma technology
The VKIST team's research has successfully tested on skin areas with different glucose concentrations through color image analysis, giving highly accurate results, with a difference of no more than 3-5% compared to reality.
Design and fabrication of skin-attached microfluidic chip to collect sweat. Photo: VKIST
This opens up the prospect of developing modern non-invasive medical devices, helping people with diabetes easily control their blood sugar without blood tests.
Currently, patients often have to use invasive blood glucose measuring devices, which require needle pricks to draw blood, causing pain, discomfort, and even infection or skin damage if used too much. Meanwhile, non-invasive devices that attach sensors to the skin have appeared but are still not accurate enough to completely replace traditional methods.
The VKIST team has made an important contribution in this field, with the research being evaluated by the Acceptance Council and published in the international journal Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The Council suggested that the team continue to improve the product towards commercialization, contributing to improving the quality of personal health monitoring devices in the near future.