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Wearable pH sensing beyond the Nernst limit

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A flexible charge-coupled device can be used to create a sensor capable of measuring the pH of a person’s sweat with high sensitivity.

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Fig. 1: A wearable charge-coupled device for monitoring the pH of sweat.

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Yang, Y., Gao, W. Wearable pH sensing beyond the Nernst limit. Nat Electron 1, 580–581 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0166-1

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