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  • Mechano‐Based Transductive ...
    Wang, Ting; Yang, Hui; Qi, Dianpeng; Liu, Zhiyuan; Cai, Pingqiang; Zhang, Han; Chen, Xiaodong

    Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 03/2018, Letnik: 14, Številka: 11
    Journal Article

    Wearable healthcare presents exciting opportunities for continuous, real‐time, and noninvasive monitoring of health status. Even though electrochemical and optical sensing have already made great advances, there is still an urgent demand for alternative signal transformation in terms of miniaturization, wearability, conformability, and stretchability. Mechano‐based transductive sensing, referred to the efficient transformation of biosignals into measureable mechanical signals, is claimed to exhibit the aforementioned desirable properties, and ultrasensitivity. In this Concept, a focus on pressure, strain, deflection, and swelling transductive principles based on micro‐/nanostructures for wearable healthcare is presented. Special attention is paid to biophysical sensors based on pressure/strain, and biochemical sensors based on microfluidic pressure, microcantilever, and photonic crystals. There are still many challenges to be confronted in terms of sample collection, miniaturization, and wireless data readout. With continuing efforts toward solving those problems, it is anticipated that mechano‐based transduction will provide an accessible route for multimode wearable healthcare systems integrated with physical, electrophysiological, and biochemical sensors. Mechano‐based transduction of biological signals has become an important route for wearable healthcare. This Concept provides an overview of recent advances, critical challenges, future development of pressure, strain, deflection, and swelling transductive principles for wearable healthcare devices. Special attention is paid to monitoring biophysical signals via pressure and strain sensors, and biochemical signals via microfluidic pressure, microcantilever, and photonic crystal sensors.