AUTHOR=Wang Qianqian , Sun Xu , Liu Chen , Wang Chunge , Zhao Wenjie , Zhu Zehui , Ma Sainan , Zhang Sheng 

TITLE=Current development of stretchable self-powered technology based on nanomaterials toward wearable biosensors in biomedical applications

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioengineering-and-biotechnology/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1164805

DOI=10.3389/fbioe.2023.1164805

ISSN=2296-4185

ABSTRACT=Cooperating with the burgeoning artificial intelligence and Internet-of-things (IoT), the innovative tendency of the next-generation biosensing system is towards intellectualization, miniaturization, and wireless portability. Self-powered technology has captured enormous research efforts due to the traditional rigid and cumbersome power sources being gradually out of the match with the wearable biosensing system. The research progress of various stretchable self-powered strategies for wearable biosensors and the involved integrated sensing system has demonstrated their promising potential in practical biomedical applications. In this review, the up-to-date research advances of dominating energy harvest strategies are discussed, together with the future outlook and remaining challenges which shed light on the follow-up research priorities.