Special Issue on soft organic electronics for wearable health monitoring

Introduction:

Continuous, on‑body health monitoring is reshaping how physiological signals are measured, from the clinic to everyday life. Realizing this vision depends on electronics that conform to the soft, curved, and dynamic surfaces of the human body while operating reliably over long periods. Soft organic electronic materials, including conjugated polymers, organic semiconductors, elastomers, and hydrogels, offer a potentially feasible route for achieving such devices. By combining mechanical compliance, tunable chemistry, and biocompatibility with electronic functionality, these materials enable devices to form intimate and stable interfaces with skin and tissue.

This special issue presents recent advances in soft organic electronics for wearable health monitoring, spanning materials, devices, and systems. It welcomes work on organic and polymeric semiconductors, stretchable and skin‑conformal electronics, and the transistors, sensors, and circuits built from them, together with the strategies for signal transduction, power, and integration that turn these devices into functional monitoring platforms. Contributions may range from fundamental materials design and device physics to complete wearable systems validated under physiologically relevant conditions.

By bringing together interdisciplinary researc across materials science, organic and flexible electronics, chemistry, and biomedical engineering, this special issue aims to further advance the development of next-generation wearable technologies for monitoring physical, electrophysiological, and molecular indicators of health.

Topics covered:

• Organic and polymer semiconductors for wearable devices
• Stretchable, skin‑conformal, and epidermal electronics
• Organic transistors and circuits for biosignal sensing (OFETs, OECTs)
• Wearable biochemical and molecular sensors
• Physical and electrophysiological sensors for health monitoring
• Soft materials for biointegration, adhesion, and antifouling
• Power, wireless, and system integration for wearable platforms
• Manufacturing and printing of soft and organic electronics
• Overview of soft and organic electronics for wearable health monitoring: principles, design, challenges, and future directions

Important Deadlines:

Submission deadline: 30 June 2027.

Submission Instructions:

Please read the Guide for Authors  before submitting. All articles should be submitted online, please select “VSI-Soft Organic Electronics” on submission.

Guest Editors: 

• Prof. Chuanzhen Zhao, University of Toronto, Canada. Email: czzhao@stanford.edu
• Prof. Yu Song, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Email: yusong@cityu.edu.hk