Health Monitoring with Electronic Textiles from Solution Processable Conducting Polymers

In the last decade, there has been an increased use of organic electronics for biomedical applications. Bioelectronic devices made of conducting polymers show unique properties to interface with the human body and provide an efficient physiological monitoring. The development of state-of-the art organic electronic devices on textiles to promote their wearability and allow the democratization of health monitoring systems is rapidly becoming possible. Novel approaches are needed to evolve traditional microfabrication techniques to produce organic electronic textiles. The solution processability of conducting polymers offers excellent performances in devices fabrication on textiles preserving their stretchability, breathability and yielding ubiquitous systems. Examples of a “non-traditional“ micropatterning technique for cutaneous electrodes development on knitted textiles and traditional inkjet printing to directly design functional sensors on woven and non-woven fabrics will be showcased. These devices are designed to allow multimodal health data collection, which is essential in advancing technologies towards next generation of personalized diagnostics and therapies.