Success Stories: Printed Medical Wearables

The medical industry is often a leader when it comes time to leverage new innovations. Today, let’s consider a new example that will enhance patient comfort in medical wearables enabled by printed electronics.

As one example, we see Henkel and Linxens are collaborating to integrate self-regulating heating elements into medical wearable devices.

Within the collaboration, the companies are leveraging roll-to-roll screen printing technology. Printed electronics allows the production of flexible circuits screen printed on flexible foils such as PET, and with the converting onto a self-adhesive tape, it can be cut into the shape of a skin patch.

Here is how this can help:

• Can be used for the development of highly complex and precise printed electronic designs.
• Integrated into skin patches, which are thin, comfortable, and optimized for medical applications.
• Used in various healthcare and wellness contexts, such as for pain relief or temperature-controlled drug delivery.

Looking to the future, we are going to see greater collaboration aimed at heightening innovation in various industries, including medical. This is simply a glimpse into what the future might look like with new innovations in healthcare.

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