Printed Devices for Industrial and Medical IoT

Dear Colleagues,

In the near future, there will be a strong demand for sensors and IoT devices integrated on any object with arbitrary size and shape in order to provide new and improved instruments. In this frame, innovative manufacturing technologies, such as printed electronics and additive manufacturing, represent a viable solution for the design and fabrication of such devices and instruments, and to embed them on different 2D and 3D substrates. These technologies are modernizing many application fields such as wearable devices, Industry 4 0, and IoT thanks to their ability to recognize both physical and chemical quantities that facilitate the better monitoring of human health and industrial production processes. In fact, printed electronics offer techniques for the production and integration of unconventional sensors and electronic systems or to make conventional objects "intelligent".

Consequently, this Special Issue encourages the presentation of integrated devices and sensors produced by additive manufacturing technologies (e.g., screen printing, inkjet printing, aerosol jet printing, etc.) for industrial and biomedical applications.

Dr. Mauro Serpelloni
Dr. Michela Borghetti
Guest Editors

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