Functional Materials for Flexible Electronics and Smart Wearables: Advances and Applications

Flexible electronics and intelligent wearable technology are one of the core driving forces for future intelligent living, and their combination is reshaping the hardware form of industries such as consumer electronics, medical health, and industrial testing. Flexible electronics breaks through the physical limitations of traditional rigid devices by integrating electronic components on flexible substrates, endowing devices with excellent flexibility, extensibility, and biocompatibility, thereby promoting the development of wearable devices towards thinner, more comfortable, and multifunctional directions. This article is based on various research findings in flexible electronics and smart wearables, and introduces the characteristics, preparation methods, and processing techniques of functional materials applied in this technology. At the same time, research on practical industrial production applications is collected. In the future development, flexible electronics still need considerable improvement in mechanical and electrical properties, and the preparation process needs to be developed towards low-cost, large-scale manufacturing, etc. Based on the current research status, flexible electronics will continue to expand its application scenarios and intelligent trends, becoming an important development direction and application tool in multiple disciplines and fields.