DuPont Introduces Liveo Soft Skin Conductive Tape

DuPont, which recently acquired Spectrum Plastics Group, has introduced DuPont Liveo Soft Skin Conductive Tape 1-3150 – a silicone-based thermoset adhesive for electrical biosignal sensing and transfer.
 
Combining the key benefits of silicone technology with electrically conductive properties, Liveo Soft Skin Conductive Tape technology is intended for use as a skin dry electrode in biosignal monitoring applications to enable long-term patient monitoring with stable data quality and high patient comfort.
 
The new conductive tape is intended to be used as a skin interface for electric biosignal monitoring that requires good skin conformability, no drying over time, and repositionability with gentle adhesion and atraumatic removal. It can be used in single electrodes for short-term monitoring and is best suited in medical wearable patches for long-term monitoring lasting seven or more days.
 
“Wearable biosignal-monitoring devices can enable patients to better monitor and track their own conditions outside of hospital facilities, empowering them to participate in and manage their own care,” said DuPont Liveo Healthcare Global Strategic Marketing Leader Jennifer Gemo. “To meet the needs of both patients and physicians, device manufacturers are calling for the development of long-wear patches for remote patient-monitoring that remain comfortable over the required wear time while ensuring high data quality. That’s where our new Liveo Soft Skin Conductive Tape technology is expected to play a major role. This is the first market launch of its kind for DuPont Liveo Healthcare with several other tapes in the pipeline for medical wearables.”
 
Alexis Bobenrieth, Technical Service & Development/R&D Professional and Medical Device Expert, DuPont Liveo Healthcare added: “combined skin contact and electronics expertise applied to smart wearables have helped develop a solution that matches the industry’s requirements for longer-term patient comfort and signal quality. We have leveraged our deep coating expertise to help converters develop the right process conditions to adopt Liveo tape in their production process.”
 
DuPont will showcase the Liveo Smart Soft Skin Conductive Tape at the MEDICA Trade Fair in Dusseldorf, Germany, from November 13 through 16.