TITLE:
A Comprehensive Review of Wearable Applications and Material Construction
AUTHORS:
Shenhao Wang
KEYWORDS:
Wearable Electronics, Stretchable Material, Silver Nanowires
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.10 No.6,
June
30,
2020
ABSTRACT: Wearable electronic systems are able to monitor and measure multiple biophysical,
biochemical signals to help researchers develop further understandings of human
health and correlation between human performance and diseases. Driven by
increasing demand for need in sports training, health monitoring and disease
diagnose, bio-integrated systems are developing at a significant speed based on
recent advances in material science, structure design and chemical techniques.
A wide range of wearable systems are created and feature unique measuring
targets, methods and soft, transparent, stretchable characters. This review
summarizes the recent advances in wearable electronic technologies that also include
material science, chemical science and electronic engineering. The introduction
to basic wearable fundamentals covers subsequent
consideration for materials, system integration and promising platforms.
Detailed classification towards their functions of physical, chemical detection
is also mentioned. Strategies to achieve stretchability and promising material,
AgNW, are fully discussed. This paper concludes with consideration of main
challenging obstacles in this emerging filed and promises in materials that
possess excellent potentials for predicted progress.