Soft bioelectronics have been attractive for electrical stimulation on biological tissues and recording electrophysiological signals from those tissues on the purpose of efficient treatment of neural, cardiovascular, and muscular diseases. As a material to design such bioelectronics, a soft hydrogel with mechanical modulus matching to biological tissues is highly promising for minimizing immune response and chronic inflammation caused by stiff metal-based materials.
However, for stable long-term electrical stimulation and recording of the signals, there are still challenges to improve physicochemical properties of typical hydrogels, such as low electrical conductivity, low friction force on the tissue, low toughness, and controllable degradation profile in vivo, etc. Highly conductive, mechanically durable and ultimately biodegradable hydrogels can be achieved by innovative material design rationale of natural or synthetic biocompatible polymers, implementing soft wearable/implantable bioelectronics, for instance, strain sensors, neural interfaces, and other tissue interfaces techniques. Thus, this Research Topic covers a wide range of topics related to synthesis, fabrication, new development, recent advances, and insights related to hydrogels for bioelectronics application.
We invite original research work/mini review/review papers/perspective articles on hydrogel bioelectronics (but not limited) for submission to this Research Topic:
• Synthesis and fabrication of multifuctional hydrogels for wearable/implantable bioelectronics
• New physicochemical properties and phenomena
• Soft materials for tissue interfacing
• Design of hydrogel-based soft electrodes
• 3D printable bioelectronics
• Proof of concept/novel bioelectronics
Keywords:
Hydrogels, Bioelectronics, Tissue interfaces, Soft materials, printable
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Soft bioelectronics have been attractive for electrical stimulation on biological tissues and recording electrophysiological signals from those tissues on the purpose of efficient treatment of neural, cardiovascular, and muscular diseases. As a material to design such bioelectronics, a soft hydrogel with mechanical modulus matching to biological tissues is highly promising for minimizing immune response and chronic inflammation caused by stiff metal-based materials.
However, for stable long-term electrical stimulation and recording of the signals, there are still challenges to improve physicochemical properties of typical hydrogels, such as low electrical conductivity, low friction force on the tissue, low toughness, and controllable degradation profile in vivo, etc. Highly conductive, mechanically durable and ultimately biodegradable hydrogels can be achieved by innovative material design rationale of natural or synthetic biocompatible polymers, implementing soft wearable/implantable bioelectronics, for instance, strain sensors, neural interfaces, and other tissue interfaces techniques. Thus, this Research Topic covers a wide range of topics related to synthesis, fabrication, new development, recent advances, and insights related to hydrogels for bioelectronics application.
We invite original research work/mini review/review papers/perspective articles on hydrogel bioelectronics (but not limited) for submission to this Research Topic:
• Synthesis and fabrication of multifuctional hydrogels for wearable/implantable bioelectronics
• New physicochemical properties and phenomena
• Soft materials for tissue interfacing
• Design of hydrogel-based soft electrodes
• 3D printable bioelectronics
• Proof of concept/novel bioelectronics
Keywords:
Hydrogels, Bioelectronics, Tissue interfaces, Soft materials, printable
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.