Novel Materials and Device Architectures for Wearables

Wearable systems have been receiving a great deal of attention, as they promise to generate continuous baselines for health and performance markers, leading to a step change in the way we practice medicine and track human performance. Arguably, the field is limited by materials used at the biotic/abiotic interface to bidirectionally transduce information. Conducting polymer composites with biomaterials offer several advantages to this interface, including excellent mechanical and electrochemical properties and compatibility with additive manufacturing. Different device architectures that leverage these materials to achieve optimal performance and promote new applications for wearables will be discussed.