Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh’s ingestible smart pill could revolutionise prevention and diagnosis of gut disorders/disease, and make a significant difference to the health of as many as one in five Australians who suffer gut disorders.
This month the technology won the prestigious 2017 IEEE Sensors Council achievement award in the field of sensors. Read more at RMIT.
At RMIT,Prof Kalantar-zadeh is Director of the Centre for Advanced Electronics and Sensors in the School of Engineering.
The gas-sensing, ingestible smart pill has been developed by Kourosh’s team at RMIT over many years, taking a team of researchers to perfect it, including testing the pill on themselves.
The pill utilises physisorptive sensors, which adsorb gases, and is based on atomically-thin, two-dimensional materials. At FLEET, Kourosh’s expertise in developing novel, two-dimensional semiconducting materials is key to Research Theme 1 (topological materials) and the electron and ion beam lithography techniques he has developed to fabricate advanced devices is utilised in Enabling Technology Theme B (nanodevice fabrication).
Kourosh will be presented with the award at the 2017 IEEE Sensors Conference in Glasgow at the end of October.
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