Engineering Two-Dimensional Layered Nanomaterials for Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Power Devices

High-quality personalized medicine and health management have increasingly demanded wearable biomedical electronic devices (WBEDs) towards more flexible and stretchable. This modern-life oriented trend has driven tremendous efforts from both academia and industrial enterprises devoted to the research and development of new-generation WBEDs for improving the quality of home medicine.

The development of such WBEDs crucially depends on design and assembly of new-type materials. Thanks to superior physicochemical properties derived by their two-dimensional (2D) layered structural nature, 2D layered nanomaterials (2DLNs) hold notable advantages and are offering a promising material platform for energy, sensing and wearable electronic applications.

By using 2DLNs as versatile building modules, a number of technical breakthroughs have recently been achieved for manufacturing state-of-the-art 2DLNs-supported flexible/stretchable sensors and power devices, which could help WBEDs further achievie enhanced flexibility/stretchability and realize remarkable performance improvements.

This review aims to offer timely and comprehensive evaluations on the current status, remained challenges and future perspective of 2DLNs supported wearable biomedical sensors and power devices, with the emphasis on the latest advancements and the significance of 2DLNs in device design and fabrication.