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。它正在开发一种智能 甘蔗系统，用于监控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 技术依赖于压敏材料。智能手杖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，可供医疗保健提供者使用 来监控每个人。收集到的响应的变化可能是更大问题的征兆，抓住它们 早期可以将老年人的医疗保健从被动变为主动，减少健康的经济负担 护理系统。他们当前使用的压敏材料实施起来成本昂贵，并且不适合 捕获所有感兴趣的数据点。该公司需要更新颖的压敏材料 经济的。如果制造过程也是绿色的，那就更理想了。另一个值得拥有的财产 是压力和扭矩映射的可能性。这些特性将使智能手杖能够更准确地 实时测量压力和扭矩，从而以数字读数的形式提供纠正反馈 服务器以促进可与用户沟通的姿势调整。 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。甘地博士有 材料科学、物理、绿色和自由基化学方面的专业知识。这些专业知识将用于 进一步开发绿色工艺，制造用于智能手杖的具有成本效益的新型聚合物基材料 系统。