Wearable Bio/Chemical Sensors for Healthcare Monitoring
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearable Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 6701
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Interests: electrochemical biosensors; FET biosensors; fluorescent sensors; nanopore devices for small molecules detection; nanomaterial synthesis
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Dear Colleagues,
The ideal healthcare system should offer disease identification and treatment prior to the onset of the disease. The majority of medical diagnoses today depend on blood analysis in centralized laboratories that demand costly, labor-intensive clinical equipment and, more crucially, do not provide continuous monitoring capabilities. Patients who need quick medical diagnoses and care may be prevented from receiving these as a result. With the rapid advancements in nanotechnology, the topic of wearable bio/chemical sensors has recently attracted enormous attention worldwide because it can provide a unique solution to current medical problems by continuously monitoring physiological and/or biochemical markers, which is crucial for many chronic illnesses, neurological disorders, depression, and drug addiction. These wearable devices can be embedded in both textiles and the epidermis to evaluate sweat components in a non-invasive and unobtrusive manner. However, these devices have major hurdles in areas such as sweat collection, sensing array design, active materials, multiplexity, biocompatibility, air permeability, device stability, power consumption, real-time data transmission, and so on. By fulfilling all these tasks, it is expected that, in the near future, these wearable bioelectronics platforms will replace the traditional diagnostic medical devices, providing prompt response and warning in sufficient time for action, acceptable sensitivity and selectivity, and few false-positive and false negative results.
Dr. Chaker Tlili
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wearable bio/chemical sensors
- sweat
- nanomaterials
- electrochemical
- field effect transistor
- colorimetric
- multiplexed
- POCT
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