Flexible, stretchable sensors for wearable health monitoring: sensing mechanisms, materials, fabrication strategies and features

Y Liu, H Wang, W Zhao, M Zhang, H Qin, Y Xie - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wearable health monitoring systems have gained considerable interest in recent years
owing to their tremendous promise for personal portable health watching and remote …

A review on accelerometry-based gait analysis and emerging clinical applications

D Jarchi, J Pope, TKM Lee, L Tamjidi… - IEEE reviews in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gait analysis continues to be an important technique for many clinical applications to
diagnose and monitor certain diseases. Many mental and physical abnormalities cause …

Flexible ferroelectric sensors with ultrahigh pressure sensitivity and linear response over exceptionally broad pressure range

Y Lee, J Park, S Cho, YE Shin, H Lee, J Kim… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Flexible pressure sensors with a high sensitivity over a broad linear range can simplify
wearable sensing systems without additional signal processing for the linear output …

Pressure/temperature sensing bimodal electronic skin with stimulus discriminability and linear sensitivity

GY Bae, JT Han, G Lee, S Lee, SW Kim… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Human skin imperfectly discriminates between pressure and temperature stimuli under
mixed stimulation, and exhibits nonlinear sensitivity to each stimulus. Despite great …

Indirect measurement of ground reaction forces and moments by means of wearable inertial sensors: A systematic review

A Ancillao, S Tedesco, J Barton, B O'Flynn - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the last few years, estimating ground reaction forces by means of wearable sensors has
come to be a challenging research topic paving the way to kinetic analysis and sport …

Roll-to-roll fabrication of touch-responsive cellulose photonic laminates

HL Liang, MM Bay, R Vadrucci, CH Barty-King… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Hydroxypropyl-cellulose (HPC), a derivative of naturally abundant cellulose, can
self-assemble into helical nanostructures that lead to striking colouration from Bragg …

Self‐powered insole plantar pressure mapping system

C Deng, W Tang, L Liu, B Chen, M Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sensitive monitoring and real‐time foot pressure mapping have important applications for
medical treatment/diagnostics, sports training, and even security. In this work, a facile plantar …

Sewing machine stitching of polyvinylidene fluoride fibers: programmable textile patterns for wearable triboelectric sensors

YE Shin, JE Lee, Y Park, SH Hwang… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Textile-based sensors can perceive and respond to environmental stimuli in daily life, and
hence are critical components of wearable devices. Herein, self-powered triboelectric …

Polymer optical fiber for in-shoe monitoring of ground reaction forces during the gait

AG Leal-Junior, A Frizera, LM Avellar… - IEEE Sensors …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground reaction force (GRF) measurement is usually made by means of force platforms,
which can lead to errors when the foot is not precisely placed inside the platform …

Shoe-insole technology for injury prevention in walking

H Nagano, RK Begg - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Impaired walking increases injury risk during locomotion, including falls-related acute
injuries and overuse damage to lower limb joints. Gait impairments seriously restrict …