Flexible and Stretchable Electronics for Next-Generation Smart Sensing
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 183
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flexible and stretchable electronics have emerged as a transformative platform for next-generation smart-sensing systems, enabling seamless integration of sensors with complex, soft and dynamic environments such as the human body, biological tissues and deformable structures. Unlike conventional rigid sensors, these systems offer unique advantages including mechanical compliance, conformability, lightweight form factors and robustness under large deformations, which are essential for continuous, long-term and unobtrusive sensing.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in smart-sensing systems based on flexible and stretchable electronics, covering innovations from materials and device architectures to system-level integration and real-world applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, flexible and stretchable sensors for physical, chemical and biological signals; wearable and epidermal sensing platforms; soft and implantable sensing devices; wireless and battery-free sensing technologies; flexible sensor arrays and networks; data acquisition, signal processing and intelligent sensing enabled by flexible electronics and applications in healthcare monitoring, human–machine interfaces, robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT).
This Special Issue aligns well with the scope of Sensors by focusing on novel sensor designs, sensing principles, system integration and sensing applications enabled by emerging flexible and stretchable electronic technologies. We invite original research articles and comprehensive reviews that advance the state of the art in smart-sensing systems and promote interdisciplinary collaboration across materials science, electronics, mechanics and sensing technologies.
Dr. Chaorui Qiu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- epidermal electronics
- sensing network
- multimodality sensing
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- e-skin
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