Polymer-Based Flexible Smart Electronics

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, wearable sensors and devices have attracted a great deal of attention from the scientific and industrial fields, especially in the polymer-based flexible smart electronics research area. Wearable polymer-based sensors and devices are an emerging group of sensors that are flexible, wearable, comfortable, and have a seamless connection with the human body. Therefore, a special collection on the topic of applications of electrospun nanofibers in sensors and devices is urgently needed.

Currently, several critical issues of polymer-based flexible smart electronics should be addressed to accelerate the development of this field, such as the robust performance, recycling usable and low-cost fabrication and so on. Furthermore, a seamless electronic system should also be established for wearable applications.

This special collection attempts to bring together multidisciplinary interests devoted to all aspects of research and development of wearable textile-based sensors and smart clothes within the following topics:
• Fundamentals and physics of polymer-based sensors
• Piezoresistive/Piezoelectric/Capacitance polymer-based fibers, yarns, and fabric sensors
• Wireless connection of polymer-based sensors and devices
• Thermal and moisture polymer-based sensors and devices
• Design of smart polymer-based smart clothes
• Textile-based electronic skin

Keywords: wearable devices, polymer-based sensors, flexible electronics, smart clothes, textile sensors, comfortable

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