PFI:AIR - TT: Motionless MSM Micro-Pump

这个PFI: AIR技术翻译项目的重点是翻译一种不动磁形状记忆（MSM）微泵，以满足用小、轻、高可靠的微流体泵排出体液和输送剂量的需求。静止的MSM微泵非常重要，因为它能够以更高的精度和更高的可靠性给微流体加药，这将推动生物、化学和医学许多领域的研究。例如，静止的MSM微泵将从诸如脑和肺等器官中连续排出液体，而不需要或只需要微创手术，而不是通过重复的手术干预来清除这些液体，这是目前最先进的技术。该项目将产生一个可扩展的静止MSM微泵原型。这种静止的MSM微泵具有以下独特的特点：它重量轻，驱动无接触，并且可以运输从皮升到毫升的大范围体积。与市场上领先的蠕动泵和注射泵相比，这些功能提供了可靠性，精度，多功能性，无接触驱动，低功耗等优势。该项目解决了以下技术差距，因为它从研究发现转化为商业应用。MSM泵送概念于2012年在一个由旋转永磁体驱动的泵上进行了演示。这种微型泵利用了一种磁性形状记忆合金，这种合金在动态磁场的作用下会发生形状变化。研究人员将用一组电子线圈和一个轭代替旋转磁铁，将泵变成一个没有活动部件的固态设备。这将简化设计，使进一步小型化，并减轻重量。此外，参与该项目的人员，包括一名博士后工程研究员和一名MBA学生，将通过将多功能、磁机械、智能材料与电磁场操纵相结合，并通过使用客户开发流程（即精益启动台流程），获得创新、产品开发和技术转化方面的经验，以建立围绕静止MSM微泵的可持续商业模式。该项目与动物医院WestVet合作，在将技术从研究发现转化为商业现实的过程中，在体液引流的背景下确定微型泵的临床需求。该项目还聘请了Idaho TechHelp，将研究人员与爱达荷州和该地区的制造商联系起来。

This PFI: AIR Technology Translation project focuses on translating a motionless magnetic shape memory (MSM) micropump to fill the need for draining bodily fluids and delivering dosages with small, lightweight, and highly reliable micro fluidic pumps. The motionless MSM micropump is important because it enables dosage of micro fluids at higher precision and greater reliability which will advance research in many areas of biology, chemistry, and medicine. For instance the motionless MSM micropump will drain fluids from organs such as brain and lung continuously without or with minimally invasive surgery as opposed to removal of such fluids through repeated surgical interventions which is the current state of the art. The project will result in a scalable prototype of a motionless MSM micropump. This motionless MSM micropump has the following unique features: it is lightweight, actuated contact-free, and can transport a large range of volumes from picoliter to milliliter. These features provide advantages such as reliability, precision, versatility, contact-free actuation, low power consumption when compared to the leading competing peristaltic pumps and syringe pumps in this market space. This project addresses the following technology gaps as it translates from research discovery toward commercial application. The MSM pumping concept was demonstrated in 2012 at a pump actuated by a rotating permanent magnet. The micropump makes use of a magnetic shape memory alloy that shape-shifts in response to a dynamic magnetic field. Researchers will replace the rotating magnet with a set of electrical coils and a yoke turning the pump into a solid state device without moving parts. This will simplify the design, enable further miniaturization, and reduce weight. In addition, personnel involved in this project, including a post-doctoral engineering researcher and a MBA student, will receive experiences in innovation, product development and technology translation through combining a multifunctional, magneto-mechanical, smart material with electromagnetic field manipulation and through using a customer development process - namely the Lean Launchpad process - to build a sustainable business model around the motionless MSM micropump.The project engages the animal hospital WestVet to establish clinical needs for a micropump in context with bodily fluid drainage in this technology translation effort from research discovery toward commercial reality. The project also engages Idaho TechHelp to connect the researchers with manufacturers in Idaho and the region.