Soft Science Webinar Series | Soft Wearable and Implantable Sensors and Bioelectronics for Advancing Human Healthcare

This talk will focus on the fundamental scientific principles underlying integrated soft nanomembrane biosensors and bioelectronics in both wearable and implantable configurations. It will discuss the limitations of current biomedical systems in continuous health monitoring, persistent human–machine interfaces, and disease diagnosis, and present a series of innovative strategies designed to address these challenges. The presentation will cover system design and fabrication approaches based on materials engineering, printing-enabled nanomanufacturing, and hard–soft system integration technologies. Several recent research efforts will be highlighted, including the development of soft bioelectronic sensors and platforms for applications such as persistent human–machine interfaces (e.g., wearable exoskeletons for human augmentation), sleep quality assessment and disorder detection, cardiac health monitoring, VR/AR-integrated brain–computer interfaces, and wearable auscultation devices for continuous cardiopulmonary monitoring. In addition, examples from both in vitro and in vivo studies will be presented to demonstrate the novelty and advantages of these soft bioelectronic systems in real-time health monitoring, portable healthcare, quantitative disease diagnosis, and enhanced therapeutic interaction through human–machine interfaces.