Soft and Wearable Sensors for Human Health Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Soft and wearable sensors have received great attention for human health monitoring in recent years. Soft and wearable sensors are deformable, biocompatible, and lightweight, while retaining the functionalities of conventional sensors. They can be comfortable and user-friendly and offer long-term, continuous health monitoring with high signal fidelity. They can help to overcome the limitations of current biomedical devices for the early screening/diagnosis, prevention, and management of diseases and they can enhance the quality and independence of human life. Combined with artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning and deep learning, they can also offer an automated analysis of diseases in real-time to realize home-based and patient-centered healthcare. However, there are great challenges in the development of such advanced soft and wearable sensors, requiring interdisciplinary studies and experiments involving engineering, chemistry, material sciences, analysis, and data science.

This Special Issue will focus on discussions and insights regarding the current state-of-the-art and challenges in the development of soft and wearable sensors. It will include not only novel strategies for the design, materials, manufacturing, and fabrication of soft and wearable sensors but also their potential applications for health monitoring.

In this context, topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Soft and wearable sensors and electronics for health monitoring;
• Advanced materials and manufacturing for soft and wearable sensors;
• Wearable/implantable sensors for healthcare applications;
• Sensors for continuous, long-term monitoring;
• Bio-integrated/stretchable electronics;
• AI-enabled health monitoring with wearable sensors.

Dr. Yongkuk Lee
Guest Editor

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• soft and wearable sensors and electronics for health monitoring
• advanced materials and manufacturing for soft and wearable sensors
• wearable/implantable sensors for healthcare applications
• sensors for continuous, long-term monitoring
• bio-integrated/stretchable electronics
• AI-enabled health monitoring with wearable sensors.