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Recent Advances in Wearable Flexible Electronics

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 1309

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Department of Electronics and Computer Technology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Interests: sensors; laser-induced graphene; flexible electronics; embedded systems; wearables; printed electronics
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Dear Colleagues,

Flexible and stretchable electronics is one of the most promising fields for diverse scientific and industrial areas, such as electronic skin, wearables devices, and biosensing. This has led to several studies on the synthesis of flexible conductive materials as an alternative to conventional rigid silicon-based technology, thus meeting the requirements of these applications (lightness, mechanical flexibility, transparency, etc.). Efforts in this direction have resulted in several outstanding advances in many flexible electronics areas, including sensors, antennas, and energy-storage devices. This Special Issue, “Recent Advances in Wearable Flexible Electronics”, covers the fabrication and characterization of these kind of devices and their use for the development of wearable electronics systems for different applications.

Original papers, communications, and reviews covering advances in the field of flexible electronics for wearable applications are warmly welcomed to contribute to this Special Issue.

Dr. Francisco J. Romero
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • flexible electronics
  • printed electronics
  • wearables
  • stretchable electronics
  • supercapacitors
  • antennas
  • biosensing
  • transparent electronics
  • e-skin

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Design of Wearable Textile Electrodes for the Monitorization of Patients with Heart Failure
by María Jesús Sánchez, Santiago J. Fernández Scagliusi, Luis Giménez-Miranda, Pablo Pérez, Francisco Javier Medrano and Alberto Olmo Fernández
Sensors 2024, 24(11), 3637; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24113637 - 4 Jun 2024
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Heart failure is a severe medical condition with an important worldwide incidence that occurs when the heart is unable to efficiently pump the patient’s blood throughout the body. The monitoring of edema in the lower limbs is one of the most efficient ways [...] Read more.
Heart failure is a severe medical condition with an important worldwide incidence that occurs when the heart is unable to efficiently pump the patient’s blood throughout the body. The monitoring of edema in the lower limbs is one of the most efficient ways to control the evolution of the condition. Impedance spectroscopy has been proposed as an efficient technique to monitor body volume in patients with heart failure. It is necessary to research new wearable devices for remote patient monitoring, which can be easily worn by patients in a continuous way. In this work, we design and implement new wearable textile electrodes for the monitoring of edema evolution in patients with heart failure. Impedance spectroscopy measurements were carried out in 5 healthy controls and 2 patients with heart failure using our wearable electrodes for 3 days. The results show the appropriateness of impedance spectroscopy and our wearable electrodes to monitor body volume evolution. Impedance spectroscopy is shown to be an efficient marker of the presence of edema in heart failure patients. Initial patient positive feedback was obtained for the use of the wearable device. Full article
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