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A review of flexible wearable sensors
- 1 School of Material science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, 100029
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Abstract
With the improvement of science and technology, wearable sensor technology has been widely used in health management, human-computer interaction and many other fields, becoming a mainstream research direction. Moreover, it has a good application prospect in various industries. In this paper, the performance requirements of wearable sensors are analyzed, and the future direction of wearable sensors is discussed in combination with the development of polymer for flexible sensors on flexible substrates and conductive materials. Based on the limitations of current technology, the optimization of wearable sensor technology mainly focuses on the improvement of sensing element materials and the accuracy of collected signals.
Keywords
Flexible wearable sensors, Flexible sensors, Electronic skin technology, Signal acquisition, Compliance materials.
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Wang,D. (2023). A review of flexible wearable sensors. Applied and Computational Engineering,4,657-665.
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