Wearable and Implantable Sensors for Healthcare

Covers the cutting-edge development of wearable sensing electronics, with emphasis on the healthcare applications in epidermal sensors, smart fabrics, wearable biosensors and implantable monitoring sensors.

Professor Chen Xiaodong is the President's Chair Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry (by courtesy) and Professor of Medicine (by courtesy) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). He is the Director of Innovative Centre for Flexible Devices (iFLEX) at NTU and the Director of Max Planck-NTU Joint Lab for Artificial Senses. Professor Chen's research focuses on developing soft materials for the applications in flexible devices, energy storage, and healthcare. His research topics cover interactive materials and devices, integrated nano-bio interface, and cyber-human interfaces and systems. He is also the co-founder of a spin-off company, Quickcharge Pte Ltd, commercializing cutting-edge energy storage technology.

Chapter 1 Introduction to wearable electronics
Chapter 2 Human signals and collection
2.1 Types of signals
2.2 Current commercialized electrophysiological detection devices
2.3 The state-of-the-art electrophysiological detection devices
Chapter 3 Smart wearable sensing technology
3.1 Transfer from rigid to wearable sensing
3.2 Sensors and sensing mode
3.3 Sensor characteristics
3.4 Sensor types
3.5 Fundamental mechanics in wearables
3.6 Wireless technologies for data transmission
3.7 Data acquisition and processing
Chapter 4 Fabrication, packaging, integration of wearables
4.1 Materials synthesis
4.2 Lithography and patterning
4.3 Electronics packages and interconnection
4.4 Flexible circuit board fabrication
Chapter 5 Wearable applications: Epidermal sensors
Chapter 6 Wearable applications: Smart fabrics
Chapter 7 Wearable applications: Wearable biosensors
Chapter 8 Wearable applications: Implantable monitoring
Chapter 9 Neurotechnologies and prosthetic devices
9.1 Neural interfaces
9.2 Neuromotor system
9.3 Neuroprosthetic interface
9.4 Cortical prosthesis
9.5 Spinal prosthesis
9.6 sEMG-based prosthesis
9.7 Challenges
Chapter 10 Future perspectives