Healthcare is undergoing a transformative shift with the rise of stick-to-skin wearable monitoring devices. These innovative data-collecting marvels, such as continuous glucose monitoring devices and cardiac monitoring devices, offer a new level of convenience and real-time insights into our health status and wellbeing. This article explores the capabilities required, the diverse application areas, and the market trends that and driving the growth of this groundbreaking technology. Use Cases: Stick-to-Skin Wearable Monitoring Devices with flexible hybrid electronics find applications in a variety of areas within the life sciences and healthcare industry. For instance, continuous glucose monitoring devices enable individuals with diabetes to track their glucose levels throughout the day, promoting effective management of this chronic disease. Cardiac monitoring devices help monitor heart rate, heart rhythm, and other cardiac parameters, aiding in the detection and prevention of cardiovascular conditions. These devices exemplify the potential of stick-to-skin wearables to provide continuous, non-invasive monitoring for a wide range of healthcare needs. Production Considerations: The production of stick-to-skin wearable monitoring devices necessitates a partner with a very unique set of capabilities. Flexible circuit fabrication is essential but ideally having the abilities to both advance TRL and MRL prototyping and proof of concept creation, as well as fully scaled roll-to-rol...

Thomas Kolbusch | Director Sales, Marketing, Technology, VP Smart packaging is becoming increasingly important in the context of steadily rising packaging waste.
Plastic films and paper materials are used in a wide range of daily life products. The largest amount of this use is attributable to the packaging industry e.g., food and pharmaceutical packaging. Global production of packaging-related materials is continuously growing and as a result the industry and consumers are producing more packaging waste than ever before without considering the recyclability.
The response from politicians, industry and society is to introduce new policies and stricter regulations, as well as new societal expectations to the industry.
To handle the resulting ecological requirements, the industry faces new technological and logistical challenges. Beside the use of recyclable and biodegradable materials for products, the digitalization of production processes and the implementation of intelligent and smart products are essential for maintaining competitiveness.

In this context, this presentation emphasizes the rising importance of printed electronics in terms of sustainable smart packaging and addresses how the aforementioned challenges can be overcome by implementing ecological solutions on an industrial scale.
Work from various EU-funded projects dealing with the further development of sustainable and smart packaging as well as the introduction of industrial roll to roll process st...

The Role of the Contract Manufacturer in the Wearables Market. In the world of wearables, your idea may only go as far as the contract manufacturer you chose to partner with can take it. Taking a concept from the lab to commercialization frequently requires a number of adjustments. Working with a contract manufacturer who has the flexibility to make adjustments in order to bring your product to market may be the difference between commercial success and failure. A wearable sensor design, at its basic concept, consists of conductive inks printed on a substrate. In the manufacturing world, a basic concept can quickly turn into a complicated process. The contract manufacturer needs to marry all the aspects of a design together in order to create the perfect component. Conductive Inks Your wearable product will call for a conductive ink made of carbon or silver and possibly with a dielectric ink as an insulator. The first instinct with a wearable may be to go with inks that provide the most elasticity. This sounds like it would make sense especially if the wearable is intended to move with the person’s body. Even the most elastic of inks start to break down as they are stretched. There are many factors that go into selecting the correct inks. Partnering with a contract manufacturer with established ink vendor relationships, experience in the manufacturing of wearables, and enough experience to identify design change is important to the success of your product. Conductive ...

TechBlick is excited to announce that the exhibition at their Future of Electronics RESHAPED event has grown by 50% over this event in 2022 and is sold out with 4 months to go. This year’s show takes place on 17 & 18 October at The Estrel in Berlin and looks to reshape the future of electronics. 78 leading global organisations will be exhibiting and attendees will experience the latest technologies and products - see https://www.techblick.com/electronicsreshaped This premier conference and exhibition looks to re-shape the future of electronics f ocusing on the key topics of printed, flexible, sustainable, additive, hybrid, wearable, textile, 3D, structural and in-mold electronics. This unmissable event will attract a global audience from innovators and material suppliers to equipment makers, manufacturers and a large number of end users. The world-class agenda too has been announced and confirmed speakers include: META, Volvo, Signify, GE Healthcare, Williot, Panasonic, Airbus, BEKO, Space Foundry, LIFE Group, Cicor, Raynergy Tek and many more. In total over 60 speakers will present over the 2 days and an agenda can be seen below. Agenda 1 - 17 October Keynote Presentations 09.05AM • TechBlick • Welcome & Introduction 09.10AM • Meta • Additive Manufacturing for Future High Volume Manufacturing of Electronic Devices 09.30AM • Volvo Cars • Evolution of lighting in automotive interiors: how will the future look* 09.50AM • Signify • Additive manufacturing & lighting: status,...

A new generation of printed devices. Recent developments in nanochemistry have led to the creation of functional nanoparticle-based inks acting as a base for a new generation of printed devices especially in the bio- and optoelectronics fields of application. However, to take the full benefit of nanoscale properties, at least one dimension of the system must be below the characteristic length associated with the property that is being considered, e.g. thermal diffusion length, the thickness of the diffusion layer, a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation. An example of this principle concerns the realization of enzymatic cascade reactions, which requires the enzymes to be co-localized within a distance comparable to the diffusion layer thickness, i.e from 100 nm to 1 μm. Another example is represented by plasmonic structures such as Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) devices require achieving nanostructures separated by a gap smaller than the light wavelength in order to produce enhanced spectroscopic signatures of elements arranged in between. Such an application needs the pattern’s characteristic dimensions to be below 100 nm. All the high-added value applications considered here underline the need to control materials deposition and organization on a large scale which is sometimes up to three orders of magnitude, i.e. from 100 nm to 100 μm. The current limitations of printing techniques do not allow spatial resolution below the micrometer scale. Nevertheless, the ...

Rolf Meyerhans ​ nsm, based in Zofingen, Switzerland is a company which specializes in the developing and manufacturing of high-precision printing and coating systems in the field of Printed Electronics. Rolf joint nsm in 2022. He has over 30 years worked in the development of mechanical components. He gained a long experience in mechanical design, dimensioning, process analysis and structural simulations. He is responsible for the technological strategy and the implementation of customer requirements together with a team of technology experts. Join us, 77 other exhibitors, 68 speakers and over 600 participants in Berlin (17-18 OCT 2023) to RESHAPE the Future of Electronics, making it Printed, R2R, Sustainable, Hybrid, Wearable, and 3D . Explore the programme now https://www.techblick.com/electronicsreshaped...

Arthur Hendsbee | Technology Director Organic photovoltaic technologies are a 3rd generation solar technology which has been steadily improving in the past decade due to rapid evolutions in materials design, device stacks and processing strategies. Due to their high efficiency, non-toxic nature and low-cost-high-volume manufacturing potential, several market-ready applications are now emerging for this technology. For instance, photovoltaic modules for indoor energy harvesting, for integration into buildings such as greenhouses, office buildings or even vehicles. In this presentation Brilliant Matters will outline some of the current challenges in the field of high performance and scalable OPVs from a materials chemistry perspective and will discuss novel materials systems for efficient and scalable OPV devices Join us and the global community in Berlin on 17-18 OCT 2023. Lets RESHAPE the Future of Electronics, making it Additive, Sustainable, Wearable, and 3D. Explore the programme here https://www.techblick.com/electronicsreshaped...

Author: Sandra Lepak-Kuc , PhD Eng. linkedin.com/in/sandra-lepak-kuc-5a333b75 Print innovative, print smart, print sustainable, print green; Print Intelligence
Why? In recent years, sustainable printed electronics have gained tremendous interest in both science and industry. Novel electronics focus on enhancing environmental friendliness while maintaining functionality. Researchers are exploring materials and manufacturing techniques that enable the production of biodegradable or recyclable electronic components, reducing electronic waste and its impact on the environment. Where particularly? Some of the most dominant subjects involved in this trend are those related to materials and methods in biomedical applications . Rapid advances in medical technology have historically contributed to significant improvements in patient healthcare. The challenge is to develop modern or improved methods of preventive care. It will also allow to reduce the cost of instrumentation, as well as its deterioration and maintenance expenses. Very often, disposable products are desired in biomedical applications. Their main advantages are that they do not require disinfection and reduce the risk of spreading pathogens[1]. The COVID pandemic has further escalated the emphasis on single-use products, both due to the increased awareness of pathogen risk and simultaneously by spreading and improving telemedicine, which has become a permanent part of private and public healthcare[2,3]. Why there? In ...