Highly flexible perovskite oxide nanostructures-based hybrid nanogenerators for autonomous wearable devices and body metric applications

可穿戴电子设备是最近发展的“物联网”背后的重要推动力，物联网通过互联网基础设施将用户与周围的机器连接起来，以实现个性化医疗。可穿戴电子产品中使用的材料和设备应该将功能与坚固耐用、重量轻和体积小相结合，以优化成本效益。我们的工业合作伙伴Hexoskin开发了独特和创新的可穿戴身体传感器，以记录和组织个人健康信息，并使用户能够访问这些信息。为了追求这项技术并保持市场竞争力，Hexoskin需要大幅降低成本，例如通过减少设备重量和体积，同时延长使用寿命。在这个项目中，我们计划开发高度可伸展的纳米结构氧化物基混合纳米发电机，为可穿戴技术提供动力。这种方法提供了巨大的科学、技术和经济潜力，例如允许进行更长时间的实时监测。与Hexoskin合作开发和使用这些智能材料和电源将有力地加强加拿大在可穿戴设备技术方面的技术诀窍。这一努力将带来新的想法和知识产权，可以出口到世界各地，对加拿大工业产生预期的经济影响。高科技研究对于发展一个强大、多元化、不那么依赖自然资源开采的加拿大经济至关重要。总而言之，该项目将导致：(I)发展与加拿大各行业非常相关的基于纳米材料的设备、传感器融合、质量分析和诊断方面的专业知识和提供种子技术；(Ii)培养学术界和工业界都非常需要的高素质人才，他们能够对未来的工业需求做出明智的决策；(Iii)通过有效地在国内和国际上建立网络，了解这一迅速扩大的领域的发展；(Iv)使加拿大在可穿戴式应用的先进电力设备领域名列前茅，有潜力成为关键参与者。

Wearable electronic devices are an important driving force behind the recent development of the ''Internet of Things'', which connects the user with surrounding machines through Internet infrastructure for personalized healthcare. Materials and devices used in wearable electronics should combine functionality with robustness, low weight and reduced volume to optimize cost effectiveness. Our industrial partner HEXOSKIN develops unique and innovative wearable body sensors to record and organize personal health information and make it accessible to the user. To pursue this technology and maintain their market competitiveness, HEXOSKIN needs to significantly reduce costs, for example by reducing equipment weight and volume while increasing lifetime. In this project we propose to develop highly stretchable nanostructured oxide-based hybrid nanogenerators to power wearable technologies. This approach offers huge scientific, technological and economic potential, for example by permitting longer operation for real-time monitoring. Both the development and use of these smart materials and power sources in partnership with HEXOSKIN will strongly reinforce Canadian know-how in wearable device technology. This effort will lead to new ideas and IP, which can be exported worldwide, with expected economic impact for Canadian industry. High technology research is essential to develop a strong, diversified Canadian economy that is less dependent on natural resource extraction. In summary, this project will lead to: (i) DEVELOPING EXPERTISE and PROVIDING SEED TECHNOLOGY in nanomaterial-based devices, sensor fusion, quality analytics, and diagnostics, which are greatly relevant to various Canadian industries; (ii) TRAINING HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL who will be in high demand from both academia and industry, and who can make educated decisions on future industrial needs; (iii) KEEPING ABREAST OF DEVELOPMENTS in this rapidly expanding field by being effectively networked nationally and internationally; (iv) PLACING Canada ON THE MAP in the field of advanced power devices for wearable applications, with the potential to become a key player.