Wireless, Battery-Free Sensors Monitor Skin Exposure to Solar Radiation (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Wireless, Battery-Free Sensors Monitor Skin Exposure to Solar Radiation (1 of 2)

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The solar radiation sensors are flexible and can detect multiple forms of ultraviolet radiation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 5, 2018, issue of the AAAS journal: Science Translational Medicine. The paper, by S.Y. Heo at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL; and colleagues was titled, "Wireless, battery-free, flexible, miniaturized dosimeters monitor exposure to solar radiation and to light for phototherapy."

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S.Y. Heo <em>et al</em>., <em>Science Translational Medicine</em> (2018)

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