Flexible and Wearable Sensors for Motion, Health, and Energy
This community develops flexible, stretchable, and transparent electronic materials designed to sense physical stimuli like strain and pressure, or to harvest energy, primarily for wearable health monitoring and flexible electronics.
The work centers on creating conductive thin films and electrodes using silver and copper nanowires, graphene oxide, carbon nanotubes, and PEDOT:PSS. These materials are integrated into hydrogels, composites, and textile substrates to build highly sensitive strain sensors, pressure sensors, and transparent conductive films. The applications explicitly named in the literature include human motion monitoring, health monitoring, and organic solar cells. The design focus is on achieving high conductivity and sensitivity while maintaining mechanical flexibility, stretchability, and transparency.
The largest share of the community's output is found in silver research, accounting for 3.1% of all silver research, with 5,485 papers in this group. Carbon research follows with 3,048 papers, representing 0.3% of that element's total research.
The community comprises 18,742 papers, published most frequently in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Functional Materials, and Chemical Engineering Journal.
Recent work continues to focus on hydrogel-based electrodes for long-term ambulatory health monitoring, sweat biomarker analysis using microfluidic electrochemical sensors, and the development of biodegradable, self-healing, and washable textile electronics for wearable applications.