Smart materials for smart healthcare– moving from sensors and actuators to self-sustained nanoenergy nanosystems

Faezeh Arab Hassani; Qiongfeng Shi; Feng Wen; Tianyiyi He; Ahmed Haroun; Yanqin Yang; Yuqin Feng; Chengkuo Lee

Smart Materials in Medicine (Jan 2020)

Smart materials for smart healthcare– moving from sensors and actuators to self-sustained nanoenergy nanosystems

Faezeh Arab Hassani,
Qiongfeng Shi,
Feng Wen,
Tianyiyi He,
Ahmed Haroun,
Yanqin Yang,
Yuqin Feng,
Chengkuo Lee

Affiliations

Faezeh Arab Hassani: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore; Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, National University of Singapore, E6 #05-11F, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117608, Singapore; National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215123, China; Corresponding author. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore.
Qiongfeng Shi: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore; Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, National University of Singapore, E6 #05-11F, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117608, Singapore; National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215123, China
Feng Wen: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore; Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, National University of Singapore, E6 #05-11F, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117608, Singapore; National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215123, China
Tianyiyi He: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore; Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, National University of Singapore, E6 #05-11F, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117608, Singapore; National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215123, China
Ahmed Haroun: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore; Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, National University of Singapore, E6 #05-11F, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117608, Singapore; National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215123, China
Yanqin Yang: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore; Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, National University of Singapore, E6 #05-11F, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117608, Singapore; National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215123, China
Yuqin Feng: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore; Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, National University of Singapore, E6 #05-11F, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117608, Singapore; National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215123, China
Chengkuo Lee: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore; Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, National University of Singapore, E6 #05-11F, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117608, Singapore; National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215123, China; Corresponding author. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576, Singapore.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1
pp. 92 – 124

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Smart materials offer a significant role in on our lives covering various sensing and actuation applications in healthcare due to their responsivity to external stimuli such as stress, light, temperature, moisture or pH, and electric or magnetic fields. These materials are also suitable for harvesting biomechanical energies from human motions, environment or body heat, or shaping of biofuel powered devices. This will open up the horizon for nanoenergy nanosystems that can themselves act as self-powered sensors or be utilized as power sources for other integrated transducers. This paper, gives an insight to the state-of-the-art micro/nano-systems that are proposed for implantable and wearable diagnostic, therapeutic and treatment applications. The unique property of these systems apart from the flexibility or conformability of the transducers (i.e. sensors and actuators) and the uniqueness of their building materials, is their integration with various types of energy harvesters that makes the whole system self-sustained or battery-free. The incorporation of these self-sustained systems into information technology affecting smart healthcare in significant ways.

Published in Smart Materials in Medicine

ISSN: 2590-1834 (Online)
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
Country of publisher: China
LCC subjects: Technology
Website: https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/smart-materials-in-medicine/

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