Flexible Sensing Electronics for Wearable/Attachable Health Monitoring.
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.
['Wang|Xuewen|X|', 'Liu|Zheng|Z|', 'Zhang|Ting|T|']
D001794:Blood Pressure D001831:Body Temperature D004581:Electronics D006321:Heart D006801:Humans D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic D000076251:Wearable Electronic Devices
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