Smart and Connected Wearable Electronics

Nanomanufacturing, Soft Packaging, and Healthcare Devices

Woon-Hong Yeo, Yun Soung Kim

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780323991476
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323993685
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Smart and Connected Wearable Electronics: Nanomanufacturing, Soft Packaging, and Healthcare Devices is an introduction to the latest advances in nanomaterial printing technologies and soft material packaging of wearable electronics for healthcare applications. Sections introduce the whole range of nanomanufacturing technologies, both conventional and emerging being employed to produce soft healthcare devices, describe the strategies to package and assemble individual components with various form factors and properties toward fully functional soft wearable systems, and introduce a number of healthcare applications based on recent advances in soft wearable systems. This book addresses critical advances in research to help enable the translation to functional commercial products. For example, the book introduces the methods with which different components are packaged to reveal mechanical compliance and robustness. It will be a welcomed addition as a go-to reference for conducting research in academia or working in the commercial sector. - Provides up-to-date information on various printing technologies used for wearable systems - Includes dedicated sections for the use of soft materials for packaging of emerging wearable systems - Presents comprehensive coverage of materials, design, manufacturing and applications, with good balance between theories and examples

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• 1 : Screen printing-enabled nanomanufacturing of sensors and electronics
• 2 : Inkjet printing for flexible and stretchable electronics
• 3 : Aerosol jet printing toward advanced electronics: Versatile, facile, additive processes for 2D/3D structuring
• 4 : Roll-to-roll printing
• 5 : Incorporation of soft materials for flexible electronics
• 6 : Material and structural approaches for human-machine interfaces
• 7 : Strategies for IC integration
• 8 : Soft, wearable devices to monitor electrophysiological signals and gaseous biomarkers
• 9 : Implantable soft electronics and sensors
• 10 : Electrochemical analysis of biological fluids
• 11 : Advanced technologies for powering wearable devices
• 12 : Trends and emerging opportunities for smart wearables
• Index
• A