Progress in wearable electronics/photonics—Moving toward the era of artificial intelligence and internet of things

Q Shi, B Dong, T He, Z Sun, J Zhu, Z Zhang, C Lee - InfoMat, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The past few years have witnessed the significant impacts of wearable electronics/photonics
on various aspects of our daily life, for example, healthcare monitoring and treatment …

A new frontier of printed electronics: flexible hybrid electronics

Y Khan, A Thielens, S Muin, J Ting… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The performance and integration density of silicon integrated circuits (ICs) have progressed
at an unprecedented pace in the past 60 years. While silicon ICs thrive at low‐power high …

Artificial multimodal receptors based on ion relaxation dynamics

I You, DG Mackanic, N Matsuhisa, J Kang, J Kwon… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Human skin has different types of tactile receptors that can distinguish various mechanical
stimuli from temperature. We present a deformable artificial multimodal ionic receptor that …

Sign-to-speech translation using machine-learning-assisted stretchable sensor arrays

Z Zhou, K Chen, X Li, S Zhang, Y Wu, Y Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Signed languages are not as pervasive a conversational medium as spoken languages due
to the history of institutional suppression of the former and the linguistic hegemony of the …

Stretchable distributed fiber-optic sensors

H Bai, S Li, J Barreiros, Y Tu, CR Pollock, RF Shepherd - Science, 2020 - science.org
Silica-based distributed fiber-optic sensor (DFOS) systems have been a powerful tool for
sensing strain, pressure, vibration, acceleration, temperature, and humidity in inextensible …

Progress in TENG technology—A journey from energy harvesting to nanoenergy and nanosystem

J Zhu, M Zhu, Q Shi, F Wen, L Liu, B Dong, A Haroun… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technology is a promising research field for energy
harvesting and nanoenergy and nanosystem (NENS) in the aspect of mechanical, electrical …

Flexible hybrid electronics for digital healthcare

Y Ma, Y Zhang, S Cai, Z Han, X Liu, F Wang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in material innovation and structural design provide routes to flexible
hybrid electronics that can combine the high‐performance electrical properties of …

Catheter-integrated soft multilayer electronic arrays for multiplexed sensing and actuation during cardiac surgery

M Han, L Chen, K Aras, C Liang, X Chen… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
The rigidity and relatively primitive modes of operation of catheters equipped with sensing or
actuation elements impede their conformal contact with soft-tissue surfaces, limit the scope …

Skin-interfaced biosensors for advanced wireless physiological monitoring in neonatal and pediatric intensive-care units

HU Chung, AY Rwei, A Hourlier-Fargette, S Xu… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Standard clinical care in neonatal and pediatric intensive-care units (NICUs and PICUs,
respectively) involves continuous monitoring of vital signs with hard-wired devices that …

Disruptive, soft, wearable sensors

Y Ling, T An, LW Yap, B Zhu, S Gong… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The wearable industry is on the rise, with a myriad of technical applications ranging from
real‐time health monitoring, the Internet of Things, and robotics, to name but a few …