Flexible and Wearable Biosensors for Monitoring Health Conditions

Overview

Journal Biosensors (Basel)

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2023 Jun 27

PMID 37366995

Authors

Zhimin Song

Shu Zhou

Yanxia Qin

Xiangjiao Xia

Yanping Sun

Guanghong Han

Tong Shu

Liang Hu

Qiang Zhang

Affiliations

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Abstract

Flexible and wearable biosensors have received tremendous attention over the past decade owing to their great potential applications in the field of health and medicine. Wearable biosensors serve as an ideal platform for real-time and continuous health monitoring, which exhibit unique properties such as self-powered, lightweight, low cost, high flexibility, detection convenience, and great conformability. This review introduces the recent research progress in wearable biosensors. First of all, the biological fluids often detected by wearable biosensors are proposed. Then, the existing micro-nanofabrication technologies and basic characteristics of wearable biosensors are summarized. Then, their application manners and information processing are also highlighted in the paper. Massive cutting-edge research examples are introduced such as wearable physiological pressure sensors, wearable sweat sensors, and wearable self-powered biosensors. As a significant content, the detection mechanism of these sensors was detailed with examples to help readers understand this area. Finally, the current challenges and future perspectives are proposed to push this research area forward and expand practical applications in the future.

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