Biomaterial-based biodevices and their applications for non-invasive monitoring

Abstract

In the advanced information-based society, sensors are recognized not only as elements of electrical circuits, but also as value adding information devices. Particularly, sensors for non-invasive biomonitoring show rapid progress in their performances. For this sort of sensors, performances for practical applications such as flexibilities or biocompatibilities are strongly requested. In order to achieve non-invasive biomonitoring, many kinds of biodevices are reported so far. In this article, two kinds of biodevices, soft and flexible biosensors with functional polymers for tear glucose monitoring and biological gas sensors with extremely high gas selectivity for breath analysis are introduced. Also, trends in the developments of those biodevices are reported.