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Flexible Electronics for Wearable Sensing

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 3642

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Institute of Health Innovation & Technology, National University of Singapore, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd., Singapore 119077, Singapore
Interests: flexible electronics; wearable microfluidics; wearable sensors
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Dear Colleagues,

Electronics are inherently stiff and a distinct material mismatch to the human skin. The holy grail of wearable sensing is to produce electronics that are of similar material properties in terms of stiffness and flexibility to our human skin, while maintaining the functionalities to provide long-term sensing solutions.

With this motivation, it is our great pleasure to invite you to contribute an original research or review article to a Special Issue of Sensors on "Flexible Electronics for Wearable Sensing".

In this Special Issue, we hope to bring together contributions from leading experts in the field of soft, stretchable or flexible electronics, with an emphasis on a combination of materials, sensors, or applications for wearable solutions.

Potential topics include but not limited to:

  • Soft / stretchable / flexible physical sensors (force, pressure, motion, temperature, etc.)
  • Soft / stretchable / flexible chemical sensors (oxygen, carbon dioxide, pH, etc.)
  • Soft / stretchable / flexible biosensors (glucose, lactate, DNA, etc.)
  • Flexible / stretchable electronics for human-machine interface
  • Flexible / stretchable substrates of high electrical conductivity
  • Flexible / stretchable LEDS or OLEDS
  • Organic circuits

Dr. Joo Chuan Yeo 
Guest Editor

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Stretchable Strain Sensor with Small but Sufficient Adhesion to Skin
by Takaaki Nishikawa, Hisaya Yamane, Naoji Matsuhisa and Norihisa Miki
Sensors 2023, 23(4), 1774; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23041774 - 04 Feb 2023
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 3368
Abstract
Stretchable strain sensors that use a liquid metal (eutectic gallium–indium alloy; E-GaIn) and flexible silicone rubber (Ecoflex) as the support and adhesive layers, respectively, are demonstrated. The flexibility of Ecoflex and the deformability of E-GaIn enable the sensors to be stretched by 100%. [...] Read more.
Stretchable strain sensors that use a liquid metal (eutectic gallium–indium alloy; E-GaIn) and flexible silicone rubber (Ecoflex) as the support and adhesive layers, respectively, are demonstrated. The flexibility of Ecoflex and the deformability of E-GaIn enable the sensors to be stretched by 100%. Ecoflex gel has sufficiently large adhesion force to skin, even though the adhesion force is smaller than that for commercially available adhesives. This enables the sensor to be used for non-invasive monitoring of human motion. The mechanical and electrical properties of the sensor are experimentally evaluated. The effectiveness of the proposed sensors is demonstrated by monitoring joint movements, facial expressions, and respiration. Full article
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