Researchers at The Texas Heart Institute are stretching the limits of heart monitoring. In this episode of The Heart Beat, we take you inside the Regenerative Medicine Research Laboratory, where investigators have designed an elastic, semi-conductive heart patch to detect electrophysiological activity. Assistant Investigator Camila Hochman-Mendez, PhD reveals the result of the three-year, multi-institutional collaboration published in Nature Electronics. Hochman-Mendez tells all about the chemical components used to make the rubbery transistor patch and how this new technology could advance the bioengineering field.

 

 

Read the Article in Nature Electronics

Guan, YS., Ershad, F., Rao, Z. et al. Elastic electronics based on micromesh-structured rubbery semiconductor films. Nat Electron 5, 881–892 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-022-00874-z