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Digital Health: Transforming Possibilities with Flexible Electronics

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Digital health is the frontier of comprehensive health management and medical services, all facilitated through digital means. It encompasses the entire lifecycle of health data, from collection and processing to in-depth analysis and practical application. In this dynamic landscape, products and services rooted in flexible electronics play a pivotal role, revolutionizing the concept of health management.

At the heart of this transformation is flexible electronic technology, driving innovation in materials, structural design, and fabrication methods. These advancements allow seamless integration with the human body, ushering in an era of more precise health monitoring and management.

Flexible electronic technology has become indispensable in the development of wearable devices and biomedical sensors. It enables the creation of wearables that monitor physiological parameters and movement status, offering a tangible impact on health monitoring. Additionally, it plays a crucial role in the manufacturing of biomedical sensors, monitoring biochemical indicators and immune status with unparalleled accuracy.

As we look ahead, the future of digital health holds exciting possibilities. It involves the innovation of multifunctional wearable devices, the seamless integration of medical monitoring and treatment, continuous advancements in biomedical sensors, and the convergence of energy self-sufficiency, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality technologies. A cornerstone of this evolution is a steadfast commitment to data privacy and security.

The topics will include, but are not limited to:

  • New materials and structure designs of flexible electronics for digital health
  • Novel sensors, interfaces, therapeutic devices and hybrid electronics for digital health
  • Innovative processes and technologies for system integration and bio-integration
  • Multifunctional, wireless, and self-powered wearable medical platforms and products
  • Wearable and implantable flexible sensors for health monitoring
  • Flexible electronic devices for point-of-care diagnostics
  • Smart textiles and garments in digital health applications
  • Data security and privacy considerations in flexible digital health solutions

We welcome any papers on flexible electronics for digital health. The Guest Editors declare no competing interests with the submissions which they have handled through the peer-review process.   

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Yinji Ma, PhD, Tsinghua University, China  
Dr. Yinji Ma is currently a Research Associate Professor in Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. He obtained his PhD degree in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 2014. He was a post doctoral researcher in Northwestern University, USA from 2015 to 2017. In 2018 returned to the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University as a Research Assistant Professor. He served as the Editorial Board Members of the Biosensors. His research focuses on mechanics structural design, transfer printing manufacturing of flexible electronics, and its application in healthcare and brain-computer interface.

Yuan Lin, PhD,  University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Yuan Lin is a Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1999. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Beijing Institute of Physics(CAS),  the University of Houston, and Los Alamos National Laboratory respectively. In 2008, she returned to China to work at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and was selected into the National Talent Program. Her current research interests include flexible devices and terahertz spectroscopy.


Jing Yu, PhD,  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jing Yu is an Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2012, under the supervision of Prof Jacob Israelachivli. Dr. Yu did his postdoc at Caltech (2013-2014) and University of Chicago (2014-2017). In 2017, he became an Assistant Professor at NTU. He is a Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellow, Class of 2019, which allows him to explore interdisciplinary research in Singapore. The goal of Jing’s research is to characterize the dynamic properties of interfaces with hierarchical structures and to gain molecular-level control of soft interfaces to enable the design of integrated, multifunctional interfaces. 

Xinge Yu, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Xinge Yu is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, and Associate Director of Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-cardiovascular Health Engineering. Dr Yu is the recipient of RGC Research Fellow, Innovators under 35 China (MIT Technology Review), NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Grant (Hong Kong & Macao), New Innovator of IEEE NanoMed, MINE Young Scientist Award, Gold Medal in the Inventions Geneva, CityU Outstanding Research Award, Stanford's top 2% most highly cited scientists etc. Xinge Yu’s research group is focusing on skin-integrated electronics and systems for VR and biomedical applications. He has published 160 papers in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, Science Advances etc..

Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay is Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Head, Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology at IIT Guwahati. Previously, he obtained his M.Tech and Ph.D from the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur and served ANSYS - Fluent India Private Limited for more than 3 years as a CFD Engineer.  He has also served as visiting faculty at Yeungnam University at South Korea under the WCU Program and KTH Sweden under the Erasmus Mundus program. His research areas encompass Thin film Dynamics, Soft-matter Physics, Liquid Crystals, Smart Materials, Droplet and Digital Microfluidics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Microrheology of Complex Fluids, among others. He has authored more than 150 publications in the reputed Intenational Journals and has 24 patents to his credit.