Plenary Speakers

The use of wearable electronic devices that can acquire vital signs from the human body noninvasively and continuously is a significant trend for healthcare. The combination of materials design and advanced microfabrication techniques enables the integration of various components and devices onto a wearable platform, resulting in functional systems with minimal limitations on the human body. Physiological signals from deep tissues are particularly valuable as they have a stronger and faster correlation with the internal events within the body compared to signals obtained from the surface of the skin.

Paper-based electrochemical biosensors have emerged as highly attractive analytical tools in the academic and industrial sectors, thanks to their sustainability and advanced analytical features. In this presentation, I report the tipping points in our roadmap for electrochemical paper-based device development, highlighting how the use of paper in electrochemical devices not only provides additional features to the electrochemical devices but has broken down barriers for delivering measurement without i) addition of reagents, ii) sample treatment for liquid, aerosol, and solid samples, and iii) any additional pump for microfluidics. Additionally, I lay out the advantages of using paper for the design of multifarious electrochemical devices in several sectors, namely agrifood, environmental, security, and biomedical ones, underlining the next steps in the paper-based electrochemical device roadmap.