The Future Technology Pavilion of the 2020 Taiwan Innotech Expo was held at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1 between September 24 to 26. As the largest event in its history, this expo focused on the precision health ecosystem, the electro-optical industry, AI and AIoT applications, novel materials, and featured area research centers. With more than 100 presentations of original technologies at the event, more than 700 exhibitors participated, and 71 of them received awards. Among them were 4 outstanding teams from National Chung Hsing University.
Prof. Gou-Jen, Wang from the Department of Mechanical Engineering received the "Spotlight Precision Health Technology Award" with "Dual Application of Pt/Au Nano-alloy Electrode in Neutral Enzyme-free Glucose Detection Biofuel Cell." Associate Professor Ying-Chih, Lai from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, received the "Spotlight Novel Material Technology Award" with a "Self-healable, Self-powered, Stretchable, Transparent Electronic Skin (Human-Device Interface) Nanogenerator." Prof. How-Ji, Chen from the Department of Civil Engineering earned the "Spotlight Novel Materials Technology Award" with "High-value Recycling Waste Materials to Produce Lightweight Aggregate." Prof. Ming-Der, Yang from the Department of Civil Engineering received the "Most Popular Award" for "Air/Ground Cooperation for Optimal Rice Harvesting Model."
"Dual Application of Pt/Au Nano-alloy Electrode in Neutral Enzyme-free Glucose Detection Biofuel Cell" by Prof. Gou-Jen, Wang's team uses neutral non-enzymatic glucose detection chips in place of the current glucose detection methods and incorporates long-term blood sugar tracking technology and automatic insulin injection system, which can be incorporated into the needle of a continuous glucose monitor's sensor in the future. When combined with a neutral non-enzymatic glucose fuel power system and an automatic insulin injection system, it can be developed into a self-powered automatic blood sugar monitor system, which will boost the competitiveness of Taiwan's blood sugar monitor industry.
The "Self-healable, Self-powered, Stretchable, Transparent Electronic Skin (Human-Device Interface) Nanogenerator" developed by Associate Professor Ying-Chih, Lai's team is the world's first electronic skin that can self-repair at room temperature, is see-through, stretchable and can generate power. It is a power-generating sensor that can transform mechanical energy from the human touch to power, which means it can serve as a small power supply. Its function as a self-powered sensor can be used in human-machine interfaces, such as smart glass, artificial skin, and cellphone panels. It has endless possibilities for future applications.
Prof. How-Ji, Chen's "High-value Recycling Waste Materials to Produce Lightweight Aggregate" is the first of its kind to transform reservoir sludge, paper sludge, water treatment sludge, textile sludge, stone sludge, etc. into lightweight aggregate, which is an energy-conserving, earthquake-resistant, highly-valuable construction material. This technology realizes the environmental protection idea of urban mining and complete local resource recycling.
Prof. Ming-Der, Yang's "Air/Ground Cooperation for Optimal Rice Harvesting Model" encourages the development of an efficient rice harvesting technique that incorporates technologies such as drones and mobile devices, using a cloud platform that provides the best visual harvesting decision-making service. The drones and mobile devices, with big data and deep learning algorithms, estimate the rice's water content and predict the changes in future water content based on weather forecasts. The platform provides an accurate, comprehensive, and optimal rice harvesting schedule that can reduce the wear on farming equipment, barns, and rice drying ovens while ensuring rice quality and maximizing yield. With this platform, it can add more than 1.7 billion in production value for each crop of rice production across Taiwan.
Source: https://www2.nchu.edu.tw/news-detail/id/49565