Advanced Energy Storage Film Capacitors for Automated External Defibrillators

描述（由申请人提供）：每天有超过1000名美国人死于心脏骤停（SCA），其夺去的生命比乳腺癌、艾滋病和肺癌加起来还要多。SCA患者的生存很大程度上依赖于早期除颤，除颤每延迟1分钟，生存概率降低7-10%。事实上，只有不到5%的院外SCA患者能够存活到住院。研究发现，自动体外除颤器（AED）至少可以使院外心脏骤停患者的总生存率提高一倍。在这个快速通道SBIR项目中，Strategic Polymer Sciences, Inc. （SPS）提议为便携式AED开发具有超高电能密度的低成本紧凑型薄膜电容器。这种先进的电容器将利用宾夕法尼亚州立大学最近发现的突破性介电材料（Zhang等人）。科学280:2101;313:334;321:821;& Nature 419:284)以及SPS开发的商业规模树脂生产和薄膜加工技术。对于相同的能量传输量，SPS电容器将比目前的聚丙烯（PP） AED电容器小80%，便宜50%。先进的SPS薄膜电容器将缩小AED的尺寸，降低AED的成本，促进AED在数百万美国家庭和公共建筑中的部署，并挽救数千名心律失常患者的生命。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): More than 1000 American die every single day due to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), which claims more lives than breast cancer, AIDS, and lung cancer combined. The survival from SCA strongly depends on the early defibrillation and the probability of survival decreases by 7-10% for every minute of delay in defibrillation. In fact, less than 5% of patients with out-of-hospital SCA can survive to hospitalization. It has been found that automated external defibrillators (AED) can at least double the overall survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. In this fast-track SBIR program, Strategic Polymer Sciences, Inc. (SPS) proposes to develop low-cost compact film capacitors with ultra-high electrical energy density for portable AED. The advanced capacitors will utilize the recent breakthrough dielectric materials discovered at Penn State University (Zhang et al. Science 280:2101; 313:334; 321:821; & Nature 419:284) and the commercial-scale resin production and thin film processing technologies developed by SPS. For the same amount of delivered energy, the SPS capacitors will be 80% smaller and 50% cheaper than the current polypropylene (PP) AED capacitors. The advanced SPS film capacitors will shrink the size and reduce the cost of AED, facilitate the deployment of AED in millions of American homes and public buildings, and save thousands of patients with heart arrhythmia problem. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The development of ultra-high energy density capacitors based on advanced SPS dielectric materials can significantly reduce the size and cost of Automated External Defibrillators (AED). This will enable the deployment of AED in millions of homes of patients with heart arrhythmia problem who are facing the threat of delayed defibrillation if AED not available.