title: Advanced Materials for Health Monitoring with Skin-Based Wearable Devices.
abstract: Skin-based wearable devices have a great potential that could result in a revolutionary approach to health monitoring and diagnosing disease. With continued innovation and intensive attention to the materials and fabrication technologies, development of these healthcare devices is progressively encouraged. This article gives a concise, although admittedly non-exhaustive, didactic review of some of the main concepts and approaches related to recent advances and developments in the scope of skin-based wearable devices (e.g. temperature, strain, biomarker-analysis werable devices, etc.), with an emphasis on emerging materials and fabrication techniques in the relevant fields. To give a comprehensive statement, part of the review presents and discusses different aspects of these advanced materials, such as the sensitivity, biocompatibility and durability as well as the major approaches proposed for enhancing their chemical and physical properties. A complementary section of the review linking these advanced materials with wearable device technologies is particularly specified. Some of the strong and weak points in development of each wearable material/device are highlighted and criticized. Several ideas regarding further improvement of skin-based wearable devices are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.|Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering and The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.
authors.forename: Yasmin Shibli
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Abu-Raya
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering and The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.
authors.forename: Hossam
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Haick
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D012867:Skin; D000076251:Wearable Electronic Devices
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D015415:Biomarkers
keywords: health; monitoring; sensors; skin; wearable