NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST)

先进的自供电传感器系统和技术（辅助）Nerc veena misra，董事北卡罗莱纳州立大学，宾夕法尼亚州立大学，弗吉尼亚大学，佛罗里达国际大学，韩国科学技术院，东京工业大学，阿德莱德大学ASSIST的愿景是利用纳米技术改善全球健康状况，使个人健康和个人环境相互关联，并赋予患者和医生管理健康和提高生活质量的能力。ASSIST的纳米能量收集、能量存储、纳米级晶体管和传感器将生产创新的、自供电的、可穿戴的健康监测系统，提供长期传感，从而有效管理慢性病，提高生活质量。ASSIST将推进环境卫生研究和政策，并加强临床试验。在行业合作伙伴、环境/社会科学家和医疗从业者的指导下，这一愿景将解决NAE高级健康信息学的重大挑战。ASSIST的使命是通过开发可用于能量收集、无电池储能、超低功耗计算和通信的纳米技术，结合生理和环境纳米传感器和生物相容性材料，实现个人环境健康监测和应急响应，从而改变美国和全球的健康信息学、电子和生物医学工程行业。ASSIST的目标是：-通过基于热电、压电和超级电容器的人体能量收集和能量存储的基础知识和创新解决方案，推进发现。-利用纳米结构材料/结构提高系统能源效率的数量级。-展示可穿戴、可靠、低功耗、无创的健康和环境传感器，并为异构和分层系统集成开发强大的技术。-设计智能电源管理，实现无电池传感、计算和通信。-开发系统集成需求，结合人类和社会因素的研究，并演示暴露跟踪和健康跟踪测试平台。-建立以团队为基础的研究、教育和创新文化，雇用多元化的团队，专注于健康和安全解决方案和系统的研究、设计和生产。与大学预科机构建立伙伴关系，加强STEM管道，提高技术素养和动力，为解决NAE大挑战做出贡献。智力优势：ASSIST在高效纳米结构、柔性热电材料和纳米畴压电材料方面的研究将提高从人体收集的功率水平，而新型纳米结构电极将增加电容器的存储密度。对纳米级量子阱和量子线结构的探索与应变工程相结合，将提高先进CMOS器件的性能并降低其能耗。对异质结构界面进行精确的原子尺度控制将显著提高互补带间隧道晶体管的能量效率。纳米材料驱动的新型传感模式的研究将显著降低功率水平并增加自供电系统的功能。例如，用于增强光吸收和检测的纳米干胶、纳米水凝胶复合材料、纳米线、纳米膜和纳米材料将产生高性能传感器。ASSIST将这些技术整合到智能电源管理策略系统中，使用从纳米级材料和设备到人体界面的分层集成。更广泛的影响：个人环境暴露与健康反应的直接相关性，有助于了解对慢性疾病（如哮喘、过敏、心脏病、自身免疫性疾病）的影响；长期感知关键环境触发因素和健康指标，为公共卫生研究和临床试验提供前所未有的数据/工具；加强对疾病发生和进展及其有效管理的了解；更明智地制定环境卫生监管政策；灾害应急反应的新工具；更快速的诊断和提高治疗效果；通过强化学校合作，加强STEM通往工程职业的管道；提高美国工程专业毕业生的公共科学素养和多样性。

NERC FOR ADVANCED SELF-POWERED SYSTEMS OF SENSORSAND TECHNOLOGIES (ASSIST)VEENA MISRA, DIRECTORNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV., PENN STATE UNIV., UNIV. VIRGINIA, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIV., KOREAADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, UNIV. ADELAIDEThe vision of ASSIST is to use nanotechnology to improve global health by enabling correlation between personal health and personal environment and by empowering patients and doctors to manage wellness and improve quality of life. ASSIST's nano-enabled energy harvesting, energy storage, nanoscale transistors and sensors will produce innovative, self-powered, wearable health monitoring systems that provide long-term sensing to enable effective management of chronic conditions and improve quality of life outcomes. ASSIST will advance environmental health research and policy and strengthen clinical trials. This vision, guided by industry partners, environmental/social scientists, and medical practitioners, will address the NAE Grand Challenge of Advanced Health Informatics.The mission of ASSIST is to transform U.S. and global health informatics, electronics, and biomedical engineering industries through development of enabling nanotechnologies for energy harvesting, battery-free energy storage, and ultra-low power computation and communication, integrated with physiological and ambient nanosensors and biocompatible materials, to empower personal environmental health monitoring and emergency response. ASSIST goals are to:-Advance discovery through fundamental knowledge and innovative solutions in human body energy harvesting and energy storage based on thermoelectrics, piezoelectrics and supercapacitors.-Leverage nanostructured materials/structures to improve system energy efficiency orders of magnitude.-Demonstrate wearable, reliable, low power, non-invasive sensors for health and environment and develop robust techniques for heterogeneous and hierarchical systems integration.-Design intelligent power management for battery-free sensing, computation, and communication.-Develop systems integration requirements, incorporating research on human and social factors, and demonstrate Exposure Tracking and Wellness Tracking testbeds.-Create a culture of team-based research, education, and innovation, employing a diverse group focused on research, design, and production of solutions and systems for health and safety.Form partnerships with precollege institutions to strengthen the STEM pipeline and promote technical literacy and motivation to contribute to solving NAE Grand Challenges.Intellectual Merit: ASSIST's research on high-efficiency nanostructured, flexible thermoelectrics and nanodomain piezoelectrics will enhance harvested power levels from the human body while novel nanostructured electrodes will increase the storage density of capacitors. Exploration of nanoscale quantum well and quantum wire structures coupled with strain engineering will enhance the performance and reduce the energy consumption of advanced CMOS devices. Precise atomic scale control of heterostructured interfaces will significantly improve the energy efficiency of complementary inter-band tunnel transistors. Investigation of novel sensing modalities enabled by nanomaterials, will significantly reduce power levels and increase functionality of self-powered systems. For example, nanoenabled dry adhesives, nano-hydrogel composites, nanowires, nanomembranes and nano-enabled materials for enhanced light absorption and detection will result in high performance sensors. ASSIST will integrate these technologies into systems with intelligent power management strategies using hierarchical integration from nanoscale materials and devices to the human body interface.Broader Impacts: Direct correlation of individual environmental exposure to health response for understanding impacts on chronic conditions (e.g., asthma, allergies, heart disease, autoimmune disease); Long-term sensing of critical environmental triggers and health vitals, leading to unprecedented data/tools for public health research and clinical trials; Enhanced understanding of onset and progression of disease and its effective management; Better informed environmental health regulatory policymaking; New tools for disaster emergency response; More rapid diagnosis and improved treatment effectiveness; Strengthened STEM pipeline to engineering careers through intensive school partnerships; Enhanced public science literacy and diversity of U.S. engineering graduates.