Novel Flexible Electrode Materials for Sensing Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Today, sensing devices have become key components in a broad range of daily-use platforms, providing on-site, real-time information regarding temperature, position, chemistry, force and load and flow and level, which are essential to the functioning of virtually any product, process or system. Moreover, there a wide range of point-of-care sensing medical devices aid clinicians in tracking and monitoring patients’ medical treatments and conditions by detecting and measuring several physical and chemical parameters.

The current challenge in sensing technology is the need for this field to act as a building-block and provide ground-breaking technology for the megatrends that will shape society by 2030. While sensing devices are currently effectively deployed and their marketability is mature, the current major challenge associated with them is the need to establish a framework for the design and implementation of wearable devices which are flexible, bendable, conformable, stretchable, and can be used over large areas and 3D surfaces to be implemented to specific sensing needs, from the brain–computer interface and autonomous driving to photonic-based devices.

This Special Issue offers a collection of original research and review papers regarding the major driving trends, challenges and achievements in the field of simulation research, design, engineering, synthesis and new processing strategies for novel materials with flexible structures employed as electrodes in sensing platforms, with an evaluation of their impact on the key physical–chemical features of desired sensors.

The Guest Editors would like to thank the authors who decide to submit their contributions, which may address, but are not limiting to, the following topics: scientific and technological aspects related to the production of flexible electrode materials, as well as encapsulation, packaging and interconnection technologies.

Dr. Iulian Boerasu
Guest Editor

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• mobile sensors
• micro-mechanical sensors (MEMS)
• photonic-based sensors
• analytical sensors
• on-body/in-body biosensors
• brain–computer interface
• nanomaterial hybrids/heterostructures
• covalent organic frameworks and other porous crystalline materials for sensing applications
• synthesis and characterization of flexible electrodes for sensing application
• fabrication and processing of flexible sensors
• green-technology production processes for the fabrication and processing of flexible sensors
• advanced characterisation of sensors and sensing materials.