Journal article
Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces
Materials, Vol.11(2), p.187
01/24/2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107534
PMCID: PMC5848884
PMID: 29364861
Abstract
Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), designed in wearable and implantable configurations, have enormous applications in advanced healthcare, rapid disease diagnostics, and persistent human-machine interfaces. Soft, contoured geometries and time-dynamic deformation of the targeted tissues require high flexibility and stretchability of the integrated bioelectronics. Recent progress in developing and engineering soft materials has provided a unique opportunity to design various types of mechanically compliant and deformable systems. Here, we summarize the required properties of soft materials and their characteristics for configuring sensing and substrate components in wearable and implantable devices and systems. Details of functionality and sensitivity of the recently developed FHE are discussed with the application areas in medicine, healthcare, and machine interactions. This review concludes with a discussion on limitations of current materials, key requirements for next generation materials, and new application areas.
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- Title
- Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces
- Creators
- Robert Herbert - George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. rherbert7@gatech.eduJong-Hoon Kim - School of Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686, USA. jh.kim@wsu.eduYun Soung Kim - George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. ysk@me.gatech.eduHye Moon Lee - Functional Materials Division, Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), 797 Changwondaero, Seongsan-gu, Changwon, Gyeongnam 641-831, Korea. hyelee@kims.re.krWoon-Hong Yeo - Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, Bioengineering Program, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Neural Engineering Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. whyeo@gatech.edu
- Publication Details
- Materials, Vol.11(2), p.187
- Academic Unit
- Engineering and Computer Science (VANC), School of
- Publisher
- Switzerland
- Identifiers
- 99900547166901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article