Grants and Contributions:

Wearable breath and sweat sensors for health status monitoring

1001153

$90,000.00

Jan 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026

In keeping elders at home for longer, there is a need to remotely and frequently monitor their health condition and to provide the data to the care givers. This project aims at developing sensors for noninvasive and continuous sampling of biomarkers relevant to assess a senior's health condition. A sensor array, akin to an electronic nose, will be designed and built to detect and identify biomarkers such as acetone (diabetes, lung cancer), ammonia (liver diseases), nitric oxide (asthma, COPD), hydrogen disulfide (asthma, airways inflammation) and isoprene (lung cancer) in the breath of individuals. Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor sensing elements will be fabricated as to yield different signals to biomarkers, and assembled in a single sensing system. The array of sensing elements will provide a unique signature for each biomarker to identify the biomarker marker presence and to quantify its concentration in order to issue an early warning of a change in the health condition. Moreover, an electronic skin will be developed where an electrochemical device based on carbon nanotubes will be used to detect specifically glucose and/or cortisol in eccrine sweat. The electrochemical sensor will be coupled to a microfluidic component to sample, concentrate, guide and evacuate the sweat as worn as a patch directly on the skin. The sensors will serve as functional wearables to be integrated in IoT. Better data on the elders' health status will enable a faster and more targeted response to health concerns, and will promote informed decision-making by the individual, the care givers and the health practitioners.

National Research Council Canada

In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.

Montreal, Quebec, CA H3C 1K3

172-2022-2023-Q4-1001153

Grant

Grants and Contributions

121943716

Academia

This agreement has been amended 1 time(s). The end date of this agreement has been modified by 90 days.

Oct 18, 2024

École de Technologie Supérieure

Ville-Marie--Le Sud-Ouest--Île-des-Soeurs

24077

Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives

Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.

541710