Advances in Materials and Devices for Wearable Chemical Sensing
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2019) | Viewed by 4769
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent advances and achievements in the fields of material science and fabrication technologies open new potential applications of wearable systems for distributed sensing with smart capabilities. The miniaturization of devices, the ultra-low power consumption requirements of modern sensors and the growing need of new solutions in the field of Ambient Assisted Living, in terms of unobtrusive sensing devices for health and indoor ambient monitoring, drive the development of smart body patches and fabric-coupled multisensorial platforms. A growing interest is focused on the nanostructured sensing materials for flexible substrates, scalable and cost-effective fabrication techniques and smart packaging solutions for distributed sensing systems, supporting also the environmental protection policies. These complex systems may require in addition an energy independence to fulfil the above needs and an intrinsic energy harvesting capability.
This Special Issue, the first MDPI Special Issue focused on the wearable chemical sensing domain to date, aims to focus and report the recent advances in the wearable chemical sensing field, including innovative nanomaterials and in-situ materials growth/deposition, micro and nanofabricated devices, textile and body patches reliability issues, energy harvesting and high efficiency data transfer solutions.
Contributions may include, but are not limited to:
- Innovative wearable chemical sensor devices
- Nanostructured materials for chemical sensing
- Real energy autonomous wearable systems for chemical sensing
- Fabric and body patch sensors integration, wearing/reliability issues
- Innovative zero power optical, physical, electrical detection techniques for wearable sensing
Dr. Luca Francioso
Dr. Chiara De Pascali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wearable chemical sensors
- nanomaterials for wearable sensors
- flexible substrate devices
- energy autonomous sensors
- ultra-low power sensors
- fabric sensor integration
- body patch devices
