{"id":219084,"date":"2025-07-31T00:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/researchers-develop-flexible-fiber-material-for-self-powered-health-monitoring-sensors"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:03:37","slug":"researchers-develop-flexible-fiber-material-for-self-powered-health-monitoring-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/researchers-develop-flexible-fiber-material-for-self-powered-health-monitoring-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop flexible fiber material for self-powered health-monitoring sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-flexible-fiber-material-for-self-powered-health-monitoring-sensors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could clothing monitor a person\u2019s health in real time, because the clothing itself would be a self-powered sensor? A new material created through electrospinning, which is a process that draws out fibers using electricity, brings this possibility one step closer.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by researchers at Penn State has developed a new fabrication approach that optimizes the internal structure of electrospun fibers to improve their performance in electronic applications. The team has <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/jap\/article\/137\/19\/194102\/3347060\/High-crystallinity-and-polar-phase-content-in\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> its findings in the Journal of Applied Physics.<\/p>\n<p>This novel electrospinning approach could open the door to more efficient, flexible and scalable electronics for wearable sensors, health monitoring and sustainable energy harvesting, according to Guanchun Rui, a visiting postdoctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Materials Research Institute and co-lead author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could clothing monitor a person\u2019s health in real time, because the clothing itself would be a self-powered sensor? A new material created through electrospinning, which is a process that draws out fibers using electricity, brings this possibility one step closer. A team led by researchers at Penn State has developed a new fabrication approach that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1495,219,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-health","category-physics","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}