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Xuewen Wang

Xuewen Wang is currently a professor and Deputy Dean of Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, and Deputy Dean of Institute of Flexible Electronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He received his Ph.D. in materials science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests are in the area of flexible electronics and advanced functional nanomaterials for flexible healthcare sensors. His group devoted to explore the new materials and new micromanufacturing technology for highly-integrated flexible smart sensors. His group also worked on in-situ and ex-situ characterization techniques to reveal the sensing and failure mechanism for flexible materials and flexible sensors in nanoscale. He has published 70 papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, JACS with the total citation over ~7000 times. He currently serves as the Editorial Board in Materials Reports and Frontiers in Chemistry, and Youth Editorial Board of InfoMat and Soft Sciences. He is the recipient of “Nanoscale Emerging Investigator 2022” and “Chem.Commun. Emerging Investigator 2023” of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and “Rising Star in Materials Science 2023” of American Chemical Society.

 




Flexible Mechanical Sensors Toward Health-Monitoring

Xuewen Wang

* Institute of Flexible Electronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, P.R. China (E-mail: iamxwwang@nwpu.edu.cn)

Abstract

Flexible healthcare sensors provide a revolutionary technique for health-monitoring. The technique will promote not only the revolution of the next medical instruments towards portable, wearable, remote, and timely, but also the change of the conversional diagnose method in clinical practice. In this conference, I would like to report our recent progress in flexible nanomaterials and flexible sensors. We have developed a series of flexible smart sensors with high performance, which include flexible pressure sensor, strain sensor, flexion sensor, gas sensor, vibration sensor, temperature sensor, and multifunctional sensor arrays. We also demonstrated their applications in monitoring the health-related physiological signals such as wrist pulse, heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, rest tremors, plantar pressure, limbs swelling, and human motions. We believe the flexible smart sensor will be a potential disruptive technology for healthcare.

Figure 1: Flexible sensor based wearable health-monitoring system.

References

[1] W. Li, X. Wang*, W. Huang* et al., Large-Scale Ultra-Robust MoS2 Patterns Directly Synthesized on Polymer Substrate for Flexible Sensing Electronics, Advanced Materials 35, 2207447 (2023); doi: 10.1002/adma.202207447

[2] J. Gao, X. Wang*, W. Huang* et al., Ultra-robust and extensible fibrous mechanical sensors for wearable smart healthcare, Advanced Materials 34, 2107511 (2022); doi: 10.1002/adma.202107511

[3] Y. Li, X. Wang*, W. Huang* et al., The Soft-Strain Effect Enabled High-Performance Flexible Pressure Sensor and Its Application in Monitoring Pulse Waves, Research 2022, 0002 (2022); doi: 10.34133/research.0002