Review of ultra-thin and skin-like solid electronics

Abstract

Directly integrating the flexible and stretchable electronics with the humanbody has become a developing trend that is promising in healthcare. Skin-like flexible electronics that can seamlessly produce soft and conformalcontact with the human body are of large significance for clinicaldiagnosis, therapy, and human-machine interfacing, as well as for the sensingfunction of robots and so on. Here, we review on the recent progress offlexible and skin-like solid electronics with specific emphasis on theapplication in the long-term and continuous monitoring of basic humanphysical parameters, such as body temperature, surficial strain, bloodoxygen, and blood glucose, as well as energy harvesting. Along with the rapiddevelopment in big data and artificial intelligence, flexible and skin-likesolid electronics are believed to play an important role in human liferesearch and medical applications.