GX Sweat Patch
Hydration is essential to maximizing performance and recover
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The Problem
Hydration levels dropping by just 2% can reduce athletic performance
Dehydration also leads to muscle fatigue, which increases the risk of injury and limits performance through symptoms like cramps, soreness, and shortness of breath.
The Solution
The Gx Sweat Patch is designed for athletes of all disciplines, helping them better understand the hydration regimen they need to perform at their best.
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Groundbreaking Tech
Our first-of-its-kind patch, app, and cloud work in tandem to track hydration and give athletes custom recommendations.
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Peak Performance
Athletes can tap into rehydration strategies that guide recovery, allowing them to better harness their potential.
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Personalized Profiles
Workout profiles allow athletes to customize action plans based on whole-body sweating rate and sodium losses across workout types and environments.
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Smart Patch
A skin-like, microfluidic wearable that captures sweat to analyze fluid and electrolyte losses during exercise.
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Mobile App
The data-driven Gx app delivers real-time insights and lets users create personalized hydration and dietary plans based around their needs.
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Gx Cloud
The Gx Cloud logs the duration, intensity, and sweat profile of each workout, in turn helping athletes optimize fuel intake.
Our Partnership
Our partnership with Gatorade and PepsiCo have allowed the creation and global distribution of a personalized hydration management solution for athletes worldwide.
Select Publications
The Gx Sweat Patch for personalized hydration management
The Gx Sweat Patch is a wearable microfluidic sweat sensor that can be worn by athletes to monitor their sweating rate and sweat chloride concentration. Here, we highlight the commercialization of the Gx Sweat Patch, from developing and optimizing prototypes of a wearable sweat-sensing platform, to validation in competitive individual and team-sport athletes, and the […]
Skin-Interfaced Microfluidic System with Machine Learning-Enabled Image Processing of Sweat Biomarkers in Remote Settings
Dehydration has many deleterious effects on cognitive and physical performance as well as physiological function, in the context of sports, industrial work, clinical rehabilitation, and military applications.
