title: Flexible Sensing Electronics for Wearable/Attachable Health Monitoring.
abstract: Wearable or attachable health monitoring smart systems are considered to be the next generation of personal portable devices for remote medicine practices. Smart flexible sensing electronics are components crucial in endowing health monitoring systems with the capability of real-time tracking of physiological signals. These signals are closely associated with body conditions, such as heart rate, wrist pulse, body temperature, blood/intraocular pressure and blood/sweat bio-information. Monitoring such physiological signals provides a convenient and non-invasive way for disease diagnoses and health assessments. This Review summarizes the recent progress of flexible sensing electronics for their use in wearable/attachable health monitoring systems. Meanwhile, we present an overview of different materials and configurations for flexible sensors, including piezo-resistive, piezo-electrical, capacitive, and field effect transistor based devices, and analyze the working principles in monitoring physiological signals. In addition, the future perspectives of wearable healthcare systems and the technical demands on their commercialization are briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Programmed Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
authors.forename: Xuewen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Centre for Programmed Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: i-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D001831:Body Temperature; D004581:Electronics; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D000076251:Wearable Electronic Devices
keywords: flexible electronics; health monitoring; pressure sensors; wearable electronics