Wang Yan’s Research Group at GTIIT published a review article on “Skin bioelectronics towards long-term, continuous health monitoring” in《Chemical Society Reviews》(IF: 54.564) in April 2022.

Chemical Society Reviews (Chem Soc Rev) is the Royal Society of Chemistry's leading reviews journal, and it is one of the three most influential and authoritative review academic journals in the field of chemical engineering and materials in the world. The journal publishes high-impact and authoritative review articles covering important topics at the forefront of the chemical sciences and provides an important leading and guiding role in the development of related fields.

Skin bioelectronics are considered as an ideal platform for personalised healthcare because of their unique characteristics, such as thinness, lightweight, good biocompatibility, excellent mechanical robustness, and great skin conformability. Recent advances in skin-interfaced bioelectronics have promoted various applications in healthcare and precision medicine. Particularly, skin bioelectronics for long-term, continuous health monitoring offer powerful analysis of a broad spectrum of health statuses, providing a route to early disease diagnosis and treatment.

In this review, the following aspects are discussed: 1) representative health care sensing devices, 2) material and structure selection, device properties, and wireless technologies of skin bioelectronics towards long-term, continuous health monitoring, 3) health care applications: acquisition and analysis of electrophysiological, biophysical, biochemical signals, and comprehensive monitoring, and 4) rational guidelines for the design of future skin bioelectronics for long-term, continuous health monitoring. Long-term, continuous health monitoring of advanced skin bioelectronics will open unprecedented opportunities for timely disease prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment, demonstrating great promise to revolutionise traditional medical practices.  

The knowledge and insights provided in this article will benefit the wider scientific community in three aspects: (1) stimulate the development of advanced wearable technologies for high-performance skin bioelectronics; (2) encourage continued progress of skin bioelectronics towards long-term, continuous monitoring of a broad spectrum of health conditions of the subject; and (3) expedite the realization of the full potential of future skin-interfaced bioelectronics that can provide point-of-care healthcare in home and community settings.

Link to the article: 

https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CS00207H