Issue 12, 2023

Recent progress in flexible micro-pressure sensors for wearable health monitoring

Abstract

In recent years, flexible micro-pressure sensors have been used widely in wearable health monitoring applications due to their excellent flexibility, stretchability, non-invasiveness, comfort wearing and real-time detection. According to the working mechanism of the flexible micro-pressure sensor, it can be classified as piezoresistive, piezoelectric, capacitive and triboelectric types. Herein, an overview of flexible micro-pressure sensors for wearable health monitoring is presented. The physiological signaling and body motions contain a lot of health status information. Thus, this review focuses on the applications of flexible micro-pressure sensors in these fields. Additionally, the contents of sensing mechanism, sensing materials and performance of flexible micro-pressure sensors are introduced in detail. Finally, we predict the future research directions of the flexible micro-pressure sensors, and discuss the challenges in practical applications.

Graphical abstract: Recent progress in flexible micro-pressure sensors for wearable health monitoring

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
29 noy 2022
Accepted
16 fev 2023
First published
15 apr 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 3131-3145

Recent progress in flexible micro-pressure sensors for wearable health monitoring

J. Hu, G. Dun, X. Geng, J. Chen, X. Wu and T. Ren, Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 3131 DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00866A

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