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Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29364861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11020187 |
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author | Herbert, Robert Kim, Jong-Hoon Kim, Yun Soung Lee, Hye Moon Yeo, Woon-Hong |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-58488842018-03-14 Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces Herbert, Robert Kim, Jong-Hoon Kim, Yun Soung Lee, Hye Moon Yeo, Woon-Hong Materials (Basel) Review 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. MDPI 2018-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5848884/ /pubmed/29364861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11020187 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Herbert, Robert Kim, Jong-Hoon Kim, Yun Soung Lee, Hye Moon Yeo, Woon-Hong Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces |
title | Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces |
title_full | Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces |
title_fullStr | Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces |
title_full_unstemmed | Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces |
title_short | Soft Material-Enabled, Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces |
title_sort | soft material-enabled, flexible hybrid electronics for medicine, healthcare, and human-machine interfaces |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29364861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11020187 |
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