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Research progress of flexible wearable stress sensor

Liping Xie, Dalong Xiang, Renqiao Wang, Haoran Wang

Article ID: 1619
Vol 2, Issue 2, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/wt.v2i2.1619
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Abstract

Flexible wearable pressure sensors are widely used in health diagnosis, sports monitoring, rehabilitation medicine, entertainment, and other fields due to some factors such as the stretch ability, bendability, light weight, portability, and excellent electrical properties. In recent years, significant progress has been made in flexible pressure sensors, and a variety of flexible pressure sensors that able to measure health status have been applied to the pulse wave, movement, respiration, and electrocardiogram (ECG) detection. However, there are still many problems to be solved in the development of flexible pressure sensors. This article summarizes the development of flexible pressure sensors in recent years, from the working principle to the structural design of the flexible pressure sensors; designs to build a high-performance flexible pressure sensors; discusses the problems existing in current flexible pressure sensors and envisions the development trend of flexible pressure sensors in the future. Flexible pressure sensors with excellent flexibility, good biocompatibility, rapid response, high sensitivity, and multifunctional integration have shown a broad application prospects.

Keywords

wearable; pressure sensor; flexible, sensor; health monitoring

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