Project description
Flexible miniaturised battery for wearable sensors
Global health challenges increasingly rely on continuous monitoring of key indicators for effective interventions. Timely detection of biomarkers is vital for prevention, diagnosis, and drug response. Wearable sensors for real-time, remote monitoring require batteries that are flexible, compact, non-flammable, and made from readily available materials. The ERC-funded FlexiMin project will highlight a flexible, miniaturised battery designed to power the next generation of wearable sensors for detecting biomarkers in body fluids. It will demonstrate the continuous operation of both commercial sensors and organic electrochemical transistors for identifying biomarkers in interstitial fluids or sweat. The results will enable individual sensors and sensor arrays to provide accurate medical diagnoses over several days. It will also develop a go-to-market strategy.
Objective
Global societal health challenges are increasingly reliant on the continuous monitoring of key indicators used to trigger aimed interventions. Only the timely sensing of specific biomarkers can underpin the prevention, diagnosis, and drug response necessary to make a societal change in healthcare. Wearable healthcare sensors for wireless real time remote monitoring of biomarkers can only rely on batteries. These should be flexible, small in lateral dimensions, non-flammable, and they should be based on widely available raw materials. FlexiMin proof-of-concept aims at demonstrating a flexible miniaturized battery to power next generation of wearable sensors of biomarkers in body fluids. The specific objective is to demonstrate the continuous powering of a commercial sensor as well as of a new class of sensors, which are the organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), for the detection of specific biomarkers in either interstitial fluids or sweat. The goal is to demonstrate powering of individual sensors as well as of arrays of sensors for accurate medical diagnosis over days of operation and a Go-to-Market Strategy will be designed as one of the objectives of the project. FlexiMin will create a new solution for the newly growing market of wearable healthcare sensors for continuous monitoring.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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SW7 2AZ London
United Kingdom
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