Novel Polymer Nanocomposites for Smart Cane Sensors

用于智能手杖传感器的新型聚合物纳米复合材料

• 批准号: 490798-2015
• 负责人: Ghandi, Khashayar
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Mount Allison University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=586617
• 关键词: Novel; Polymer; Nanocomposites; Smart; Cane

Doctor's Orders Inc. is a high tech company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. It is developing a Smart Cane system to monitor how it is used and to better inform health care and related interventions. Their technology relies on pressure sensitive materials. The Smart Cane system uses pressure sensitive material to measure pressure and force. The data is logged on a cloud based server that is available to health care provider to monitor each person. Variations in collected response can be a symptom of a greater issue, catching them early can change senior's health care from reactive to proactive reducing the economic burden on the health care system. The current pressure sensitive material that they use is expensive to implement and does not capture all of the data points of interest. The company requires novel, pressure-sensitive materials that are more economic. It is ideal if the process to make them is green as well. Another property that would be good to have is the possibility of pressure and torque mapping. These properties would allow Smart Cane to more accurately measure pressure and torque in real time, thereby allowing corrective feedback in the form a digital read out on the server to facilitate postural adjustments which can be communicated with the user. This project will develop new polymer-based composites as sensors that can address this need. Dr. Ghandi has expertise in Material Science, Physical, Green and Free Radical Chemistry. These expertise will be used to further develop green processes to make cost effective novel polymer based material for use in Smart Cane system.

Doctor's Orders Inc.是一家位于新不伦瑞克省弗雷德里克顿的高科技公司。它正在发展一个聪明的 甘蔗系统以监视其使用方式并更好地为医疗保健和相关干预措施提供信息。他们的 技术依赖于压力敏感材料。智能甘蔗系统使用压力敏感材料 测量压力和力。数据记录在基于云的服务器上，该服务器可用于医疗保健提供者 监视每个人。收集的响应的变化可能是一个更大问题的症状，抓住它们 早期可以将高级医疗保健从反应性变为主动减轻健康的经济负担 护理系统。他们使用的当前压力敏感材料实施昂贵，而不是 捕获所有感兴趣的数据点。该公司需要新颖的，压力敏感的材料，这些材料更多 经济的。如果使它们成为绿色的过程也是理想的选择。另一个可以拥有的物业 是压力和扭矩映射的可能性。这些特性将使智能甘蔗更准确地 实时测量压力和扭矩，从而允许以数字读取形式进行纠正反馈 服务器促进可以与用户传达的姿势调整。 该项目将开发新的基于聚合物的复合材料作为可以满足此需求的传感器。 Ghandi博士有 材料科学，物理，绿色和自由基化学的专业知识。这些专业知识将习惯 进一步开发绿色过程，以使具有成本效益的新型聚合物材料用于智能甘蔗 系统。