Advances in graphene based electronic skin devices and healthcare applications
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Abstract
Skin, as the biggest organ of the human body, has exceptional sensory capacities in response
to numerous environmental stimuli, mediates human-environment interactions, and serves as
the body's outer barrier for protection. Electronic skin (e-skin) has received substantial
attention in recent years and located great potential in prosthetics, robots, wearable devices,
medical equipment, and plenty of other areas. The event of the emerging field of nano
generators and piezotronics unveiled new sorts of flexible electronic skins. These devices
demonstrated high sensitivity, rapid response, and self-power capability. This review provides
an outlook of electronic skins enabled by nano generators and piezotronics. Mainly, the
review emphasizes on methods, design, fabrication, and importance of graphene for the
development of functional e-skin. Finally the review summarizes latest advances in graphene
based e-skin devices developed for human health monitoring. The current challenges,
prospects and future scope of graphene based e-skin devices in various healthcare
applications are also summarised.
If completely developed, e-skin devices would be able to provide continuous health
monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics to help people improve their health.
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Graphene, Electronic skin, Thin films, Piezoelectricity, Artificial skin, Robotics, Super capacitors, Optoelectronics
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