Recent Advances in Nanomaterial‐Enabled Wearable Sensors: Material Synthesis, Sensor Design, and Personal Health Monitoring

Peng, Bo; Zhao, Fengnian; Ping, Jianfeng; Ying, Yibin

doi:10.1002/smll.202002681

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“…[187] More information regarding functional materials used in sensory system could refer to some other specific reviews. [9,58,155,167,172,174,178,188,189] Therefore, the vital and promising demands of better sensing performance and highly integrated system call for explorations of new active materials and prominent architectures for the advanced fabrication of multi-sensing flexible sensors.…”

Section: Choices Of Materials For Flexible Sensorsmentioning

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Recent Advances in Multiresponsive Flexible Sensors towards E‐skin: A Delicate Design for Versatile Sensing

Jia

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As we know, human skin is natural barrier for human being to protect the body from external substance invasion, and also biological multifunctional sensors perceiving pressure, temperature, proximity, pain, smell, friction, texture of objects, etc. [4,12,13] Admittedly, human skin also has its intrinsic drawbacks like inaccurate and indirect discernment of relative humidity which needs to be perceived by the cooperation of mechanoreceptor and thermoreceptor. [14,15] Thus, e-skin should be not only limited to imitating the structure and multifunctional sensing capabilities of human skin, but also be able to develop more excellent traits beyond the human skin. [14,16] Considering the exploitation and employment of numerous materials, versatile structures and the integration of various mechanisms and manufacturing methods, the real future e-skins would surpass human skin in most aspects and show new characteristics such as transduction of other stimuli like light, sound, and even magnetism. [17][18][19] The delicate design and integration of multifunctional flexible sensors may overcome the current shortcomings and offer new insight into the forthcoming era of omnipotent stretchable and bendable electronics.Basically, flexibility is a trait for contours with zero-Gaussian curvature, while stretchability is necessary for conformal and entire covering surfaces with non-zero Gaussian curvature when the flexible sensors are attached to irregular 3-dimensionally curvilinear human skin. [20] Thus, stretchable sensors are supposed to be flexible. In the beginning of flexible sensors, most of the elemental sensing parts were created by combining inherently inorganic and rigid active materials (e.g., Si and Au) with soft substrates via special shape designs which are partly flexible to some extent. [20][21][22][23] Nonetheless, it is far from perfect for practical use if attaching these electronic devices on arbitrarily curved human skin and robot surfaces. Actually, commercial wearables are supposed to gradually take the sense of human scale and aesthetic into consideration, i.e., they are expected to be mechanically conformal, user-comfortable, environment-friendly, biocompatible, transparent, etc. [24,25] Consequently, all-flexible/stretchable sensors mainly consisting of organic active materials and/or metal nanowires are springing up. [26] Among various signals existing in nature, forces, temperature, and humidity play essential and vital roles in our normal Multiresponsive flexile sensors with strain, temperature, humidity, and other sensing abilities serving as real electronic skin (e-skin) have manifested great application potential in flexible electronics, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT). Although numerous flexible sensors with sole sensing function have already been reported since the concept of e-skin, that mimics the sensing features of human skin, was proposed about a decade ago, the ones with more sensing capacities as new emergences are urgently demanded. However, highly integrated a...

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Section: Choices Of Materials For Flexible Sensorsmentioning

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Recent Advances in Multiresponsive Flexible Sensors towards E‐skin: A Delicate Design for Versatile Sensing

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“…The proposed solution will help his coach monitor and evaluate George's physical qualities in different periods of his annual season as far as the level of his physical fitness changes each season. (Peng et al, 2020).…”

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Proposed Design and Assessment Methodology of a Wearable Device for Prevention and Performance Evaluation of Athletes

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Nikaki²,

Pitoglou

et al. 2022

International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare

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The paper presents the design approach of a low power stretchable wearable epidermal electronic device as part of an advanced athlete performance management framework to perform multi-parametric, multi-modal measurements of vital physiological parameters through the skin and via sweat analysis. It can be used to seamlessly monitor athletes, to prevent serious health complications and injuries during training, sudden death and complications related to overtraining. The proposed framework allows real-time physiological monitoring, tracking, prediction and quantification of athletic performance and estimation of recovery time after an injury, an illness or the overtraining syndrome. It is based on low-cost and clean room-based fabrication techniques and interconnects and readout electronics based on commercially available off-the-shelf components and application-specific integrated circuits. A data analytics platform incorporates real-time monitoring to identify the susceptibility to sudden death, health complications or injury, for the athlete, executing a personalized prediction model

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“…Finally, researchers in this field can take hope from Herbert Krömer (Nobel Prize in Physics 2000) in Krömer's Lemma: "The principal applications of any sufficiently new and innovative technology always have been and will continue to be applications created by that new technology" [131]. For instance, the unique properties of CNS led to a wide array of proposed applications in medicine and the health sector [132][133][134][135], spanning from tissue engineering [35,136] to wearable sensors [137,138], imaging [139,140], diagnostics, and therapy [141], especially leveraging their conductive properties [142]. There are, however, hurdles for their translation into clinical practice [143][144][145], and it can be envisaged that further developments in their covalent attachment into stable and branched nanostructures may allow at least some of these barriers to be overcome, for instance limiting the loss of individual CNSs from the material.…”

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Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures

Malik

Marchesan

2021

Nanomaterials

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Nanomaterials featuring branched carbon nanotubes (b-CNTs), nanofibers (b-CNFs), or other types of carbon nanostructures (CNSs) are of great interest due to their outstanding mechanical and electronic properties. They are promising components of nanodevices for a wide variety of advanced applications spanning from batteries and fuel cells to conductive-tissue regeneration in medicine. In this concise review, we describe the methods to produce branched CNSs, with particular emphasis on the most widely used b-CNTs, the experimental and theoretical studies on their properties, and the wide range of demonstrated and proposed applications, highlighting the branching structural features that ultimately allow for enhanced performance relative to traditional, unbranched CNSs.

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Recent Advances in Nanomaterial‐Enabled Wearable Sensors: Material Synthesis, Sensor Design, and Personal Health Monitoring

Cited by 150 publications

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Recent Advances in Multiresponsive Flexible Sensors towards E‐skin: A Delicate Design for Versatile Sensing

Recent Advances in Multiresponsive Flexible Sensors towards E‐skin: A Delicate Design for Versatile Sensing

Proposed Design and Assessment Methodology of a Wearable Device for Prevention and Performance Evaluation of Athletes

Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures

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