Novel Technologies for Body Energy Harvesting and Transfer for Wearable and Implantable Health Monitoring Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

During the last decade, the wearable electronics industry has grown exponentially with many promising applications in health and performance monitoring. The ‘holy grail’ of wearable monitoring devices is long-term, continuous monitoring relying on energy harvested from either the human body or the environment thereby either eliminating the batteries or significantly extending their lifetime. In recent years, a variety of both mature and novel harvesting technologies have been considered, and significant advances in power density have been achieved. Perhaps even more importantly, this recent work on self-powered wearables has also sparked interest in the possibility of realizing implantable electronics that do not rely on periodic surgeries for replacing no-longer-functional batteries.  Achieving this goal will most likely require novel energy harvesting technologies or technologies that provide safe transfer of energy from an external source. This Special Issue of Applied Sciences welcomes papers on all aspects of energy harvesting or transfer technologies toward battery-free operation of wearable and implantable health-monitoring devices. As such, we welcome papers that focus on topics ranging from new enabling materials to complete engineering systems.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet C Ozturk
Guest Editor

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• wearable
• implantable
• energy
• energy harvesting
• energy transfer
• self-powered
• battery-free