All Knitted and Integrated Soft Wearable of High Stretchability and Sensitivity for Continuous Monitoring of Human Joint Motion.

E-textiles have recently gained significant traction in the development of soft wearables for healthcare applications. However, there have been limited works on wearable e-textiles with embedded stretchable circuits. Here, stretchable conductive knits with tuneable macroscopic electrical and mechanical properties are developed by varying the yarn combination and the arrangement of stitch types at the meso-scale.

Soft Wearable Knee Brace with Embedded Sensors for Knee Motion Monitoring.

E-textiles have shown great potential for development of soft sensors in applications such as rehabilitation and soft robotics. However, existing approaches require the textile sensors to be attached externally onto a substrate or the garment surface. This paper seeks to address the issue by embedding the sensor directly into the wearable using a computer numerical control (CNC) knitting machine.

Occurrence of and faecal coliforms in drinking water at source and household point-of-use in Rohingya camps, Bangladesh.

Background: Safe water is essential for life but unsafe for human consumption if it is contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms. An acceptable quality of water supply (adequate, safe and accessible) must be ensured to all human beings for a healthy life.

Methods: We collected and analyzed a total of 12,650 drinking water samples, for the presence of and faecal coliforms, from a large habitation of the displaced Rohingya population comprising of about 1.