New Advances in Wearable and Flexible Sensor Devices and Their Future Prospects
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 866
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Innovation Engineering, Università del Salento, 73010 Lecce, Italy
Interests: micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) design and fabrication; flexible piezoelectric transducers for sensing and energy harvesting; piezoelectric micro-machined ultrasonic transducers (PMUT); wearable piezoelectric sensors for vital sign monitoring
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Interests: flexible and stretchable electronics; soft machines; mechanics of nanomaterials; soft materials; thin films
Interests: MEMS; microsystems; micromachined sensors and actuators; nontraditional microfabrication technologies; microsystem packaging and integration; sensor electronic interfaces; embedded systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, wearable and flexible sensors have attracted tremendous research interest due to their promising applications in health-care monitoring, human–machine interfaces, electronic skin (e-skin), and soft robotics. Such sensors are prominent in the non-invasive measurement of various physiological signals and biomarkers in biological fluids. However, the following questions remain: what is the current state of the art, and what is the prospect of wearable sensors? In this Special Issue, we focus on the recent advancements, current challenges, and new opportunities of wearable and flexible physical and electrochemical sensors. We invite emerging investigators, experts, and researchers working on physical sensors (e.g., pressure, strain, temperature, humidity, ECG, etc.) and electrochemical biosensors to contribute their insightful ideas through commentaries, perspectives, future outlooks, and reviews. We highly encourage authors to submit developments focused on novel sensing materials, transduction principles, sensor design strategies, and their unique applications in the formats of either full-length articles or communications. Looking forward to the prospects and attention to the key challenges, we expect that wearable and flexible sensor devices will continue to spark a greater impact in disease diagnosis, e-skin, prosthetic body organs, and body sensor networks.
Dr. Vincenzo Mariano Mastronardi
Dr. Jianliang Xiao
Dr. Tao Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- physical sensors
- electrochemical biosensors
- wearable electronics
- flexible
- stretchable
- nanomaterials
- composite materials
- 2D materials
- elastomeric substrates
- textile-based sensors
- sensitivity
- limit of detection
- reliability
- biocompatibility
