Wearable Electronics

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of a Special Issue entitled “Wearable Electronics” in the open access journal, C (ISSN2311-5629, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/carbon). Interest in wearable electronics, that combine sensors and wireless communication to provide accurate and reliable vital information autonomously, has exploded in recent years to enhance safe and healthy living. This will impact a large range of areas, for example, healthcare, environment, security, defence, the economy and energy. Wearable electronics can be used for health monitoring, activity monitoring, disease detection, robotics, robotic surgery, implantable devices, driverless cars, artificial limb and structural monitoring, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Along with the explosion of interest in wearable electronics, a variety of challenges, nonetheless, persist which prevent wearable electronics from becoming a fully commercializable technology. We have seen that extensive research and development has proven carbon-based materials to be promising materials for use in wearable electronics. Non-carbon materials such as liquid alloy are also under exploration for application in wearable devices. As wearable electronics is of a highly interdisciplinary nature, it requires the convergence of many disciplines, notably from materials development, device design and fabrication, device physics, system integration, software and application verification. This Special Issue will be dedicated to providing academic and industrial communities with news of recent advancements in this exciting field. Original articles are welcome and your contribution would greatly enhance this Special Issue by offering different perspectives on this topic.

Yours sincerely

Prof. Dr. Zhi-Bin Zhang
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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