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The Flexible and Wearable Pressure Sensing Microsystems for Medical Diagnostics

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The flexible wearable pressure sensor has the unique advantages of being lightweight and low cost and having good flexibility, and it has received extensive attention as a result of its great application potential for realizing real-time health monitoring. In this review, we summarize some common substrate materials and active materials used in the fabrication of sensors and introduce sensing mechanisms, including piezoresistivity, capacitance, piezoelectricity, and triboelectricity. Moreover, we present some improvement directions for the sensor’s key property of sensitivity, by choosing better active materials or finding suitable microstructure, and we also introduce sensor’s property of power consumption, sensing range, response time, linearity, hysteresis, etc. In addition, we also have mentioned some applications of flexible pressure sensors in medical diagnostic (such as heart rate, pulse, intracranial pressure, intraocular pressure, speech recognition, gait monitoring, blood pressure, tactile monitoring, etc.) in recent years. Finally, we present the challenges that wearable sensors are facing and predict the development of sensors that will be expected to be systematic, integrated, and multifunctional in the future.

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Li, H., Lan, R., Chen, J., Li, L. (2023). The Flexible and Wearable Pressure Sensing Microsystems for Medical Diagnostics. In: Lim, KT., Abd-Elsalam, K.A. (eds) Nanorobotics and Nanodiagnostics in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16084-4_10

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