Skin bioelectronics towards long-term, continuous health monitoring.
Yan WangHossam HaickShuyang GuoChunya WangSunghoon LeeTomoyuki YokotaTakao SomeyaPublished in: Chemical Society reviews (2022)
Skin bioelectronics are considered as an ideal platform for personalised healthcare because of their unique characteristics, such as thinness, light weight, good biocompatibility, excellent mechanical robustness, and great skin conformability. Recent advances in skin-interfaced bioelectronics have promoted various applications in healthcare and precision medicine. Particularly, skin bioelectronics for long-term, continuous health monitoring offer powerful analysis of a broad spectrum of health statuses, providing a route to early disease diagnosis and treatment. In this review, we discuss (1) representative healthcare sensing devices, (2) material and structure selection, device properties, and wireless technologies of skin bioelectronics towards long-term, continuous health monitoring, (3) healthcare applications: acquisition and analysis of electrophysiological, biophysical, and biochemical signals, and comprehensive monitoring, and (4) rational guidelines for the design of future skin bioelectronics for long-term, continuous health monitoring. Long-term, continuous health monitoring of advanced skin bioelectronics will open unprecedented opportunities for timely disease prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment, demonstrating great promise to revolutionise traditional medical practices.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- public health
- soft tissue
- wound healing
- health information
- mental health
- machine learning
- health promotion
- primary care
- weight loss
- minimally invasive
- social media
- body mass index
- high throughput
- climate change
- cross sectional
- single cell
- human health
- low cost
- weight gain
- clinical practice
- artificial intelligence