Novel Polymer Nanocomposites for Smart Cane Sensors

博士订单公司是一家总部设在新不伦瑞克省弗雷德里克顿的高科技公司。它正在开发一款智能 甘蔗系统，以监测其使用情况，并更好地为保健和相关干预措施提供信息。他们的 技术依赖于压敏材料。智能手杖系统使用压敏材料来 测量压力和力。数据记录在基于云的服务器上，该服务器可供医疗保健提供者使用 监视每一个人。收集到的响应的不同可能是更大问题的症状，捕捉到它们 及早将老年人的医疗保健从被动变为主动，减轻老年人的经济负担 护理系统。他们目前使用的压敏材料实施起来成本很高，而且 捕获所有感兴趣的数据点。该公司需要新颖的压敏材料，这些材料比 经济上的。如果制造它们的过程也是绿色的，那就更理想了。另一处很好的房产 是压力和扭矩映射的可能性。这些属性将使Smart Cane能够更准确地 实时测量压力和扭矩，从而允许以数字读数的形式进行纠正反馈 服务器以便于可以与用户通信的姿势调整。 该项目将开发新型聚合物基复合材料作为传感器，以满足这一需求。甘地博士已经 材料科学、物理、绿色和自由基化学方面的专业知识。这些专业知识将被用于 进一步开发绿色工艺以制造成本效益高的新型聚合物基材料用于智能甘蔗 系统。

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.