Skin-interfaced sensors in digital medicine: from materials to applications.

The recent advances in skin-interfaced wearable sensors have enabled tremendous potential towards personalized medicine and digital health. Compared with traditional healthcare, wearable sensors could perform continuous and non-invasive data collection from the human body and provide an insight into both fitness monitoring and medical diagnostics. In this review, we summarize the latest progress of skin-interfaced wearable sensors along with their integrated systems. We first introduce the strategies of materials selection and structure design that can be accommodated for intimate contact with human skin. Current development of physical and biochemical sensors is then classified and discussed with an emphasis on their sensing mechanisms. System-level integration including power supply, wireless communication and data analysis are also briefly discussed. We conclude with an outlook of this field and identify the key challenges and opportunities for future wearable devices and systems.

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