Wearable Devices in Bioelectronics: Materials and Applications

TOPICAL COLLECTIONS

Guest Editor

Dmitry Kireev

The University of Texas at Austin

Dmitry Kireev is a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a part of the Microelectronic Research Center and the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, working on wearable applications of 2D materials, field-effect biosensing, and advanced neural implants. Dmitry was awarded a PhD in 2017 at the Institute of Bioelectronics (ICS-8) of Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), with work on graphene-based devices for neuroprosthesis, interaction with neuronal cells, and general bioelectronics. Dmitry is a recipient of a prestigious EMM-NANO scholarship and performed his MSc study at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Chalmers University (Sweden) with majors in nanoelectronics. Prior to finding his way into bioelectronics, Dmitry completed his BSc (2010) and MSc (2012) at Moscow’s National Research University of Electronic Technology in the department of quantum physics and nanoelectronics. Dr. Kireev’s current work aims to bridge together the cross-disciplinary topics of two-dimensional (2D) materials science, physics, engineering, biology, and electronics. Currently, his research seeks to apply 2D materials like graphene, MoS2, and others in the fields of bioelectronics, neuroprosthesis, and epidermal electronics.

Collection Overview

Since the discovery of transistors, the trend of miniaturizing all possible electronic components has begun. This trend has eventually led us to the form-factor of electronic components that allows for integration with our skin, clothes, glasses, shoes, etc. Within this collection, we aim to cover the materials that make wearable electronics possible, and their applications constituting modern state-of-the-art wearable bioelectronics. The topics that will be covered will vary from the materials perspective (e.g., hybrid epidermal materials, soft/flexible/stretchable polymers, 2D materials, e-tattoos, e-textiles, functional conductive polymers, liquid metals, self-healable elastomers, hydrogels) to applications (e.g., electrophysiology, blood pressure, respiration, temperature monitoring, speech recognition, sweat biosensing, human-machine interfaces, smart contact lenses, limb replacements, electronic skins, touch sensing, etc.) We are specifically interested in methods that manifest comprehensive details on their device fabrication and provide application-specific technicalities (e.g., electrical contacts to the device, wearable integration of all elements, and on-body operation specifics, etc.)