Soft Material-Enabled Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces

The book explores the advantages of soft material-enabled electronics, highlighting their mechanical flexibility and stretchability, which facilitate integration with skin and tissues. It discusses wearable devices that provide continuous biosignal monitoring for rehabilitation and diagnostics, and soft implantable electronics that enhance compatibility with human tissues. The development of biodegradable options for transient monitoring post-surgery is also examined. Recent advancements in materials, integration strategies, and fabrication techniques are reviewed, focusing on their applications in medicine, healthcare, and human-machine interfaces.