Topic: Flexible Sensors for Health and Environmental Monitoring 2.0

Flexible sensors represent a major advancement in sensor technology due to their adaptability and suitability for complex applications. Unlike conventional rigid sensors, flexible sensors offer excellent conformability, allowing integration with diverse surface geometries such as human skin, internal organs, and irregular environmental surfaces. Their high stretchability further enables use in dynamic contexts involving motion or expansion, such as wearable devices and soft robotics. In addition, their lightweight and thin form factor, combined with enhanced sensitivity, makes them highly effective for precise data collection in health monitoring and environmental surveillance.

This Special Issue highlights recent progress in flexible electronics, including advances in materials, fabrication strategies, and performance optimization. It places particular emphasis on the diverse applications of flexible sensors, spanning personalized health monitoring (beyond physiological signals), implantable and drug-delivery biomedical devices, and environmental monitoring (covering, but not limited to, pollutants, humidity, and temperature).

Flexible sensors, soft sensors, conformable sensors, physiological monitoring, environmental monitoring, materials, fabrication, properties, applications