title: Developing pressure sensitive adhesive electrodes: preliminary results.
abstract: A mixture of carbon black powder, polar organo salt and a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) has shown to be able to collect skin bio potentials. Such PSA electrodes do not dehydrate even after a prolonged period of storage, which leads to a theoretically infinite shelf life. The PSA electrodes need to be electrically activated through electrophoresis. ECG data were simultaneously collected with PSA and Ag-AgCl electrodes from 5 healthy subjects. ECG morphology was almost identical for both media. Hence, given that PSA electrodes have an infinite shelf-life, potentially with less cost associated with their fabrication, and have ECG signal dynamics nearly identical to those of Ag-AgCl, the new electrodes provide an attractive alternative for ECG measurements.
authors.forename: Hugo F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Posada-Quintero
authors.forename: Bersaín A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Reyes
authors.forename: Syed A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bin Amir
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vardakas
authors.forename: Hailey
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: DiSpirito
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Burnham
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pennace
authors.forename: Ki H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Chon
mesh_terms: D000269:Adhesives / Q000737:chemistry*; D000328:Adult; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D053260:Soot; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000269:Adhesives; D053260:Soot