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ReviewMicromachines2021

Advanced Flexible Skin-Like Pressure and Strain Sensors for Human Health Monitoring.

Xu Liu, Yuan Wei, Yuanying Qiu

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Review in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Research on Flexible Sensors for Wearable Devices: A Review.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  11. Design and Development of Transient Sensing Devices for Healthcare Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xu LiuSchool of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China.
Yuan WeiInstitute of Flexible Electronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4577-4619
Yuanying QiuSchool of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8002-6803
Xidian University · CNNorthwestern Polytechnical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, owing to their excellent flexibility and adaptability, skin-like pressure and strain sensors integrated with the human body have the potential for great prospects in healthcare. This review mainly focuses on the representative advances of the flexible pressure and strain sensors for health monitoring in recent years. The review consists of five sections. Firstly, we give a brief introduction of flexible skin-like sensors and their primary demands, and we comprehensively outline the two categories of design strategies for flexible sensors. Secondly, combining the typical sensor structures and their applications in human body monitoring, we summarize the recent development of flexible pressure sensors based on perceptual mechanism, the sensing component, elastic substrate, sensitivity and detection range. Thirdly, the main structure principles and performance characteristic parameters of noteworthy flexible strain sensors are summed up, namely the sensing mechanism, sensitive element, substrate, gauge factor, stretchability, and representative applications for human monitoring. Furthermore, the representations of flexible sensors with the favorable biocompatibility and self-driven properties are introduced. Finally, in conclusion, besides continuously researching how to enhance the flexibility and sensitivity of flexible sensors, their biocompatibility, versatility and durability should also be given sufficient attention, especially for implantable bioelectronics. In addition, the discussion emphasizes the challenges and opportunities of the above highlighted characteristics of novel flexible skin-like sensors.

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electronic skinflexible sensorshuman monitoringpressure and strainstructure characteristicwearable electronic

Identifiers

PMID34198673
PMCPMC8232132
OpenAlexW3171567069

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