Dear colleagues,

Recent advances in engineering or strategy of materials and device design have established ultrathin, soft, light-weight and skin-conformable characteristics in wearable/implantable electronic systems, allowing precise, long-term monitoring of biological signals from skin/internal organs or other external effects. Such a soft, flexible platform offers an opportunity capable of recording and analyzing diverse physical, chemical and electrophysiological parameters for biomedical applications. Research in the early stage delivered various outcomes of materials, device architectures and fundamental mechanics for flexible with stretchable properties. While recent research expanded the research areas to practical applications in diversified fields. These fields include sensors and clinical medicine with principles of biology that assists in managing personal healthcare. To achieve the unmet needs, various technologies were developed in wearable electronics using numerous materials which helps to adhere onto the requirements. For clinical/biomedical applications, scientific accomplishments mainly rely on two aspects of electronics materials that includes intrinsically stretchable nature, fragile with rigid characteristics.

In contrast to their rigid counterparts on materials, fiber-based wearable electronics hold promise for the next generation due to their flexible and stretchable ness. To obtain the excellent mechanical flexibility, they should possess high porosity and large surface area which endows the major concern for the comfort of wearables. To transform these concepts into engineering prototypes, the most important consideration is fabrication of materials that have the ability for performance requirements towards wearable electronics applications. The main objective of this section is to encourage and explore the various materials for wearable electronics applications. Considering the interdisciplinary technological aspects and their relevant practical applications it is important to encourage selective materials for wearable electronics applications. Also, this section renders to motivate review articles which helps in discussing present scenarios of wearable electronic materials to their wider adoption.  

We are looking forward to your contributions.

Prof. Dr. G.Padmalaya
Prof. Dr. Jayesh Cherusseri
Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Ali Sahito
Prof. Dr. Natarajan Sriraam
Prof. Dr. Zaka Ullah
Prof. Dr. Sathish Kumar Palaniappan
Prof. Dr. Pranab Kumar Sarkar
Prof. Dr. Sanming Hu
Prof. Dr. Rajni Bala
Prof. Dr. Chenrun Feng
Prof. Dr. Kun Zhou
Prof. Dr. Jian Yang
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