Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia.
The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia.
Adv Mater. 2020 May;32(18):e1904664. doi: 10.1002/adma.201904664. Epub 2019 Nov 13.
The wearable industry is on the rise, with a myriad of technical applications ranging from real-time health monitoring, the Internet of Things, and robotics, to name but a few. However, there is a saying "wearable is not wearable" because the current market-available wearable sensors are largely bulky and rigid, leading to uncomfortable wearing experience, motion artefacts, and poor data accuracy. This has aroused a world-wide intensive research quest for novel materials, with the aim of fabricating next-generation ultra-lightweight and soft wearable devices. Such disruptive second-skin-like biosensing technologies may enable a paradigm shift from current wearable 1.0 to future wearable 2.0 products. Here, the state-of-the-art progress made in the key phases for future wearable technology, namely, wear → sense → communicate → analyze → interpret → decide, is summarized. Without a doubt, materials innovation is the key, which is the main focus of the discussion. In addition, emphasis is also given to wearable energy, multicomponent integration, and wireless communication.
可穿戴行业正在兴起，其技术应用涵盖实时健康监测、物联网和机器人技术等诸多领域。然而，有一种说法是“可穿戴不可穿戴”，因为目前市场上可用的可穿戴传感器大多体积庞大且僵硬，导致佩戴不舒适、产生运动伪影和数据精度差。这引发了全球范围内对新型材料的密集研究，旨在制造下一代超轻量和柔软的可穿戴设备。这种颠覆性的类似第二层皮肤的生物传感技术可能会实现从当前的可穿戴 1.0 到未来的可穿戴 2.0 产品的范式转变。在此，总结了未来可穿戴技术的关键阶段（即佩戴→感知→通信→分析→解释→决策）的最新进展。毫无疑问，材料创新是关键，这也是讨论的主要重点。此外，还强调了可穿戴能源、多组分集成和无线通信。
