A tiny electrode fuels smart bandage technology
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—Band-aid technology has made incremental improvements in the years since its commercial introduction in the late 1960s, the most important of which has been the incorporation of antibiotics into the nonadhesive padding. But imagine if adhesive bandages could do more than passively prevent the growth of bacteria—imagine if they could monitor a wound and predict that growth.