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

SENSORSAND技术高级自供电系统的NERC(辅助)Veena Misra，DIRECTORNORTH卡罗莱纳州立大学，宾夕法尼亚州立大学，大学。弗吉尼亚，佛罗里达国际大学，KOREAADVANCED科学技术研究所，东京工业大学，大学。ADELAIDE ASSITE的愿景是通过实现个人健康和个人环境之间的关联，并使患者和医生能够管理健康和提高生活质量，利用纳米技术改善全球健康。Assiste的纳米能量采集、能量存储、纳米级晶体管和传感器将产生创新的、自供电的可穿戴健康监测系统，提供长期传感，以实现对慢性病的有效管理，并提高生活质量。ASSITE将推进环境健康研究和政策，并加强临床试验。这一愿景在行业合作伙伴、环境/社会科学家和医疗从业者的指导下，将应对先进健康信息学的NAE巨大挑战。ASSISE的使命是通过开发使能纳米技术来实现能量收集、无电池能量存储和超低功率计算和通信，以增强个人环境健康监测和应急响应能力，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。协助目标是：-通过基础知识和基于热电、压电和超级电容器的人体能量收集和存储方面的创新解决方案来推进发现。-利用纳米材料/结构将系统能效提高数量级。-展示可穿戴、可靠、低功耗、非侵入性的健康和环境传感器，并为不同类型和分层的系统集成开发强大的技术。-为无电池的传感、计算和通信设计智能电源管理。-开发系统集成需求，纳入对人类和社会因素的研究，并展示暴露跟踪和健康跟踪试验台。-创建基于团队的研究、教育和创新的文化。雇用专注于健康和安全解决方案和系统的研究、设计和生产的多元化团队。与大学预科机构建立合作伙伴关系，以加强STEM管道，促进技术素养和动力，为解决NAE重大挑战做出贡献。智力优势：Assistate对高效纳米结构、柔性热电材料和纳米域压电体的研究将提高从人体获取的功率水平，而新型纳米结构电极将增加电容器的存储密度。探索纳米级量子阱和量子线结构与应变工程相结合，将提高先进CMOS器件的性能，降低能耗。对异质界面原子尺度的精确控制将显著提高互补带间隧道晶体管的能效。研究由纳米材料实现的新型传感模式，将显著降低功率水平，提高自供电系统的功能。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、纳米膜和纳米使能材料将产生高性能传感器。ASSISE将利用从纳米级材料和设备到人体界面的分级集成，将这些技术集成到具有智能电源管理策略的系统中。广泛的影响：个人环境暴露与健康反应的直接关联，以了解对慢性病(例如哮喘、过敏、心脏病、自身免疫性疾病)的影响；对关键环境触发因素和健康关键因素的长期感知，从而为公共卫生研究和临床试验带来前所未有的数据/工具；加强对疾病发生和发展及其有效管理的了解；更知情的环境卫生监管决策；灾害应急反应的新工具；更快速的诊断和改进的治疗效果；通过密集的学校合作，加强了STEM通往工程职业的渠道；提高了公共科学素养和美国工程学毕业生的多样性。

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.