Preface
PART 1: Soft sensors for diagnosis
 
1 Mechanics design of flexible sensors
1.1 Design of stretchable flexible device structure
1.2 Structural Design of Substrate
1.3 Structural Designs for Spatial Integration of Device Systems
 
2 Biosensors
2.1 Wearable biosensing technology
2.2 Epidermal wearable biosensors
2.3 Ocular wearable sensors
2.4 Wound sensor
 
3 Soft sensors for disease diagnosis
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The materials and structures of flexible sensors
3.3 The application of flexible sensors in diseases diagnosis
 
4 Non-invasive detection of bio-analytes
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Biofluids of Interest for Wearable Chemical Sensors
4.3 Biofluid Enabled Platforms: Traditional to Wearable
4.4 Sampling and Detection Strategies for Biofluid-Based Wearable Sensors
4.5 Outlook
 
5 Flexible electrode for noninvasive brain-computer interface
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Development of non-invasive BCIs
5.3 Electrode technologies for non-invasive BCIs
5.4 Challenges
5.5 Conclusion
 
6 Chronic Neural Interfaces
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Architectures for Mechanical Compliance and Biocompatibility
6.3 Advanced Chronically Stable Materials for Neural Interfaces
6.4 Encapsulation for Stable Operation
6.5 Engineering Strategies for Chronic Active Sensing
6.6 Multimodal functions of long-term stable implants
6.7 Challenges and future directions
 
7 Mechanical sensors (transducer) for motion detection of human and organs
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Classification of Stretchable Mechanical Sensors
7.3 Material Architectures
7.4 Sensing Mechanisms
7.5 Representative applications
 
8 Smart optoelectronics in health monitoring and human machine interactions
8.1 Fundamentals on Photodetectors
8.2 Integrated Optoelectronic Systems
8.3 Flexible Integrated Systems Based on Photodetectors for Advanced Applications
8.4 Future Trend of Photodetectors for Soft Electronics
 
9 Wearable sensor for bioimaging
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Wearable ultrasound bioimaging sensor
9.3 Wearable photoacoustic imaging sensor
9.4 Wearable electrical impedance tomography
9.5 Wearable terahertz imaging sensor
9.6 Conclusion
 
PART 2: Soft sensors for therapy
 
10 Thermotherapy
10.1Introduction
10.2 Resistive heaters
10.3 Photothermal nanomaterials
10.4 Textile devices
 
11 Soft Electronics for drug delivery
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Skin structure
11.3 Soft Electronics-assisted TTDS for drug delivery
11.4 Conclusions and perspectives
 
12 Implantable Drug Delivery System
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Categories of Soft Electronics for Drug Delivery
12.3 Challenges and Prospects
 
13 Soft robotic sensing and medicine
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Soft robotic tactile sensing
13.3 Soft robotic environmental sensing
13.4 Miniature robotic in vivo medicine
 
PART 3: Soft sensors for interaction
 
14 Integration System
14.1 Power supply strategy of soft electronics
14.2 Encapsulation
14.3 Communication
14.4 Closed-loop control
 
15 Full-body Haptic User Experience in Virtual Reality
15.1 Investigating Around-head Directional Cues for Multi-task Visual-Searching Scenario in Virtual Reality
15.2 ThermAirGlove: A Pneumatic Glove for On-Hand Thermal Perception and Material Identification in VR
15.3 PropelWalker: A Leg-basedWearable System with Propeller-based Force Feedback for Walking in Fluids in VR
15.4 Conclusion
 
16 Self-powered Sensors
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Piezoelectric Sensor
16.3 Triboelectric Sensor
16.4 Piezoionic Sensor
16.5 Electromagnetic Sensor
16.6 Thermoelectric sensors
16.7 Potentiometric ion sensors
16.8 Conclusion