Toward Nano Materials for Flexible Sensors: Opportunities and Outlook

Dear Colleagues,

Nano materials and flexible sensors have received tremendous development in recent years and have been influencing our lives from individuals to the whole society. Nano materials exhibit exceptional multifunctional properties including high surface to volume ratios, various unique structures, and mechanical compliance, causing the class of materials to be powerful in advanced flexible sensors for applications in a variety of fields. However, there are still pending challenges impeding the commercialization of these products, in terms of poor stability, complicated fabrication, high cost, unfavorable sensitivity and accuracy, etc. Toward addressing these issues, we welcome submissions presenting novel and interesting materials, techniques, methods, and devices related to flexible sensors and their potential applications.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

(1) Nano materials for flexible sensors: plastic, molecular and inorganic systems, 1D/2D/3D nano materials, biomaterials, self-assembled materials, mimetic materials, etc.
(2) Flexible sensors and their applications: bioelectronics and health monitoring, electronic skin, sensors and actuators, optoelectronics, computing, robotics, etc.
(3) Fabrication and processing of flexible sensors: lithography, printing, solution processing, patterning, self-assembly, device integration, etc.
(4) Material properties and phenomena relevant for flexible sensors, including device physics.
(5) Architecture, simulation, theoretical calculation, calibration, and testing related to flexible sensors.
(6) Working mechanisms of flexible sensor response.

Prof. Dr. Yinching Li
Dr. Jiao Yang
Guest Editors

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• nano materials
• flexible sensors
• electronic skin
• wearables
• transducers
• healthcare
• biomarkers