3D-printed sensors: Current progress and future challenges

MR Khosravani, T Reinicke - Sensors and Actuators A: physical, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the technological advances, sensors have found a significant role in different aspects
of human life. The sensors have been fabricated via various manufacturing processes …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical basis of bone strength: influence of bone material, bone structure and muscle action

NH Hart, S Nimphius, T Rantalainen… - … of musculoskeletal & …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This review summarises current understanding of how bone is sculpted through adaptive
processes, designed to meet the mechanical challenges it faces in everyday life and athletic …

A stretchable and biodegradable strain and pressure sensor for orthopaedic application

CM Boutry, Y Kaizawa, BC Schroeder, A Chortos… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The ability to monitor, in real time, the mechanical forces on tendons after surgical repair
could allow personalized rehabilitation programmes to be developed for recovering patients …

Stretchable and suturable fibre sensors for wireless monitoring of connective tissue strain

J Lee, SJ Ihle, GS Pellegrino, H Kim, J Yea… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Implantable sensors can be used to monitor biomechanical strain continuously. However,
three key challenges need to be addressed before they can be of use in clinical practice: the …

[HTML][HTML] Highly stretchable, strain sensing hydrogel optical fibers

J Guo, X Liu, N Jiang, AK Yetisen, H Yuk… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hydrogels are widely used in tissue engineering,[1] drug delivery,[2] and wound
dressings.[3] Recently, efforts have been made to integrate photonic functions into hydrogel …

Wearable, implantable, and interventional medical devices based on smart electronic skins

L Wang, K Jiang, G Shen - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in soft, flexible, and stretchable sensors have offered a good opportunity to
design various types of wearable flexible medical devices for achievement of continuous …

Biodegradable implantable sensors: materials design, fabrication, and applications

N Ashammakhi, AL Hernandez… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to monitor diseases, therapies, and their effects on the body is a critical
component of modern care and personalized medicine. Real time monitoring can be …

Stretchable and temperature‐sensitive polymer optical fibers for wearable health monitoring

J Guo, B Zhou, C Yang, Q Dai… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Stretchable physical sensors that can detect and quantify human physiological signals such
as temperature, are essential to the realization of healthcare devices for biomedical …

Highly flexible and stretchable optical strain sensing for human motion detection

J Guo, M Niu, C Yang - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Strain sensors with high flexibility and stretchability are essential for quantifying strains
generated by human activities due to the soft and curvilinear surfaces of the body. Here, we …

A multifunctional skin-like wearable optical sensor based on an optical micro-/nanofibre

J Pan, Z Zhang, C Jiang, L Zhang, L Tong - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Multifunctional skin-like sensors play an important role in next-generation healthcare,
robotics, and bioelectronics. Here, we report a skin-like wearable optical sensor (SLWOS) …