Advanced Gel-Based Sensors: Design, Fabrication and Applications
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 476
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass material; hierarchical soft materials; hydrogel; wearable sensors; energy storage
Interests: hydrogel; wearable sensors; energy materials; electronic/photonic materials; sustainability; responsive materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gel-based sensors have attracted growing attention as an important class of soft functional materials for flexible and intelligent sensing. Because of their softness, tissue-like mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and tunable physicochemical characteristics, these materials offer clear advantages over conventional rigid sensors. They can adapt well to complex and dynamic surfaces; respond effectively to mechanical, thermal, chemical, and biological signals; and maintain stable performance under conditions where traditional devices are often limited. As a result, gel-based sensors have shown strong potential for use in wearable electronics, healthcare monitoring, electronic skin, soft robotics, human–machine interfaces, and biointegrated systems.
This Special Issue, Advanced Gel-Based Sensors: Design, Fabrication and Applications, aims to collect recent advances in the development of gel-based sensing materials and devices, welcoming original research articles and reviews covering hydrogels, ionogels, organogels, conductive gels, and multifunctional hybrid systems. Topics of interest include material design, sensing mechanisms, fabrication methods, interface engineering, self-healing, stretchability, adhesiveness, durability, signal stability, and multifunctional integration. Contributions that explore structure–property relationships and strategies for improving device performance are particularly encouraged.
We also welcome studies that demonstrate how gel-based sensors can transition from laboratory research to practical use in areas such as personalized healthcare, implantable and wearable devices, environmental monitoring, sustainable electronics, and soft intelligent systems. By collating progress from materials science, chemistry, engineering, electronics, and biomedicine, this Special Issue will provide a valuable platform for sharing new ideas and recent achievements in this rapidly developing field.
Dr. Youchao Teng
Dr. Yimin Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogels
- ionogels
- gel-based sensors
- wearable sensors
- flexible electronics
- biosensors
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