Title
Flexible, Stretchable Sensors for Wearable Health Monitoring: Sensing Mechanisms, Materials, Fabrication Strategies and Features.
Abstract
Wearable health monitoring systems have gained considerable interest in recent years owing to their tremendous promise for personal portable health watching and remote medical practices. The sensors with excellent flexibility and stretchability are crucial components that can provide health monitoring systems with the capability of continuously tracking physiological signals of human body without conspicuous uncomfortableness and invasiveness. The signals acquired by these sensors, such as body motion, heart rate, breath, skin temperature and metabolism parameter, are closely associated with personal health conditions. This review attempts to summarize the recent progress in flexible and stretchable sensors, concerning the detected health indicators, sensing mechanisms, functional materials, fabrication strategies, basic and desired features. The potential challenges and future perspectives of wearable health monitoring system are also briefly discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18020645
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
wearable health monitoring,sensors,flexibility and stretchability
Monitoring system,Wearable computer,Electronic engineering,Human–computer interaction,Wearable Electronic Device,Engineering,Personal health
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Liu124173.08
Hai Wang21911.58
Wei Zhao394.55
Min Zhang4235.43
Hongbo Qin521.33
Yongqiang Xie600.34