Wearable Biosensors for Human Health Monitoring
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 609
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer nanocomposites; nanomaterials (CNTs, AgNWs, graphene); hydrogels; flexible and wearable electronics; wearable sensors for health monitoring devices; piezoresistive sensors; strain and pressure sensors; biosensing; microfluidic devices; material research; biosensors; printed sensors; screen printing technique; micromachining of materials
Interests: micro/nano systems; microfluidics; lab-on-a-chip; organ-on-chip; biosensors; tissue engineering; cellular and molecular biology; wearable and digital technologies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wearable biosensors based on flexible electronics have gained tremendous attention in recent years for monitoring the health of individuals by measuring physical states and chemical signals generated by the human body. This provides an opportunity for various disease prediagnosis and immediate therapy. In particular, these wearable biosensors have opened up a new concept of personalized health monitoring and precision medicine to reduce time-consuming and high medical costs in current clinical practices. In wearable biosensors, a biological recognition element is embedded into the sensor function (e.g., enzyme, antibody, aptamer, or cell receptor). These biosensors can be incorporated with wearable gloves, wrist bands, headbands, eyeglasses, mouthguards, bandages, and smart clothes to enable comfortable attachment to human skin for continuous or longitudinal health monitoring. Engineers and scientists have devoted substantial efforts to the development of various biosensor platforms to enhance noninvasive and highly reliable sample collection with comfortable and compact sensor design and real-time monitoring of health status. Despite the progress made so far, due to limitations in the design and fabrication of reliable sensing materials, processing, data acquisition, and communication, successful translation to the commercial market is in its infancy. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on novelty in designs, microfluidics, materials, and fabrication techniques for developing biosensors to be convenient to wear and to do real-time or longitudinal monitoring of biological signals that are potentially useful for personalized health monitoring, medical diagnostics, and precision medicine.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Dr. Shaghayegh Shajari
Prof. Dr. Amir Sanati-Nezhad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wearable biosensors
- noninvasive monitoring
- real-time or longitudinal monitoring
- personalized health monitoring
- precision health
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