Breathable Electronic Skins for Daily Physiological Signal Monitoring

Yi Yang; Tianrui Cui; Ding Li; Shourui Ji; Zhikang Chen; Wancheng Shao; Houfang Liu; Tian-Ling Ren

doi:10.1007/s40820-022-00911-8

Breathable Electronic Skins for Daily Physiological Signal Monitoring

Nanomicro Lett. 2022 Aug 9;14(1):161. doi: 10.1007/s40820-022-00911-8.

Authors

Yi Yang^#¹, Tianrui Cui^#², Ding Li², Shourui Ji², Zhikang Chen², Wancheng Shao², Houfang Liu³, Tian-Ling Ren^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ School of Integrated Circuit, and Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China. yiyang@tsinghua.edu.cn.
² School of Integrated Circuit, and Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China.
³ School of Integrated Circuit, and Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China. houfangliu@tsinghua.edu.cn.
⁴ School of Integrated Circuit, and Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China. RenTL@tsinghua.edu.cn.
⁵ Center for Flexible Electronics Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China. RenTL@tsinghua.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

With the aging of society and the increase in people's concern for personal health, long-term physiological signal monitoring in daily life is in demand. In recent years, electronic skin (e-skin) for daily health monitoring applications has achieved rapid development due to its advantages in high-quality physiological signals monitoring and suitability for system integrations. Among them, the breathable e-skin has developed rapidly in recent years because it adapts to the long-term and high-comfort wear requirements of monitoring physiological signals in daily life. In this review, the recent achievements of breathable e-skins for daily physiological monitoring are systematically introduced and discussed. By dividing them into breathable e-skin electrodes, breathable e-skin sensors, and breathable e-skin systems, we sort out their design ideas, manufacturing processes, performances, and applications and show their advantages in long-term physiological signal monitoring in daily life. In addition, the development directions and challenges of the breathable e-skin are discussed and prospected.

Keywords: Breathable; Electronic skin; Physiological signal monitoring; Wearable systems.

Publication types

Review