Emerging Technologies in Wearable Sensors
Wearable sensors have emerged as promising technologies for personalized health monitoring, sport and fitness tracking, and medical diagnostics. Devices have become thinner, softer, and stretchable, permitting seamless integration with the body through physical, chemical, and biological sensing with remote communication capabilities. However, challenges in both materials, electronics, and integration impede harnessing the full potential of wearables. Research to overcome these obstacles require combined efforts from multiple disciplines. This Special Topic focuses on the latest advancements, grand challenges and their solutions, as well as future prospects of wearable biosensors, spanning across materials and fabrication strategies to a wide range of sensing applications on the body.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Wearable technologies
- Stretchable sensors
- Physiological parameters monitoring
- Biosensors for wearable devices
- Materials for soft and stretchable electronics
- Epidermal and tattoo electronics
- Human-machine interfaces
- Printed and organic bioelectronics
- Transient wearable sensors
- Sustainable approaches to wearables manufacturing
- Biocompatibility issues in wearables
- Innovative strategies for wearables powering and communication
Guest Editors
Dr. Arianna Menciassi – The Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (Italy)
Dr. Francesco Greco – Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Dr. Amay Bandodkar – Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University (USA)