Flexible and Stretchable Sensors: Design and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Electronic devices have evolved into highly flexible, curvilinear, and stretchable formats that enable new biomedical, robotic, and consumer-health-related applications.

The rapid development of soft/stretchable inorganic/organic electronics, wireless communication modules, biosensors, and soft encapsulating substrates has underlain this ascension in recent years. As a result, major advances have been achieved in system-level mechanics, with implications for emerging biomedical devices, human–machine interface designs, e-skins, prosthetics, surgical/nonsurgical robotics, plastronics, and flexible optical instruments for imaging and telecommunication.

After more than two decades of academic and industry research, this new class of electronics is poised to have a commercial impact. To achieve this translational feat, there are several important challenges that are being addressed today, including the development of effective encapsulation; robust circuity and interconnects; mechanical robustness; long term stability; etc.

We envision a collection of paper that address these major challenges. Use cases, devices, and applications of flexible/stretchable sensors will form part of this Special Issue, which will include research with a focus on materials and approaches to tailor soft and stretchy electronics, medical devices, sensors and systems that exploit soft/stretchable electronics, and their applications. The issue will also cover core technology capabilities, including synthesis, fabrication, characterization, and modeling approaches, along with translational applications that highlight system-level deployment in the field.

Dr. Marc Ramuz
Guest Editor

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