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Towards the World’s Smallest Gravimetric Particulate Matter Sensor: A Miniaturized Virtual Impactor with a Folded Design
The increasing air pollution across the globe has given rise to a global health crisis that is increasing at an alarming rate. Every year, millions of people lose their lives due to health risks caused by air pollutants. Hence, there is a pressing need for better solutions to accurately measure the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8914756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270874 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22051727 |
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author | Singh, Navpreet Elsayed, Mohannad Y. El-Gamal, Mourad N. |
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description | The increasing air pollution across the globe has given rise to a global health crisis that is increasing at an alarming rate. Every year, millions of people lose their lives due to health risks caused by air pollutants. Hence, there is a pressing need for better solutions to accurately measure the amount of air pollution. This work is aimed at designing a highly compact, accurate, low-cost, self-resettable, and easy-to-use gravimetric-based particulate matter sensor solution for portable applications. Previous attempts have failed to realize true miniaturization, due to the size constraints of the virtual impactor needed—a mechanism that segregates the particulate matters based on their sizes. Our complete particulate matter sensor solution consists of three components (i) a piezoelectric resonating membrane, (ii) a virtual impactor, and (iii) a thermophoretic mechanism to reset the sensor. This paper presents a novel design of the virtual impactor, based on a folded configuration. This helps realize the entire system in a volume of 20 mm × 20 mm × 10 mm. We report here the design, working principles, fabrication, and experimental results of the virtual impactor. |
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spelling | pubmed-89147562022-03-12 Towards the World’s Smallest Gravimetric Particulate Matter Sensor: A Miniaturized Virtual Impactor with a Folded Design Singh, Navpreet Elsayed, Mohannad Y. El-Gamal, Mourad N. Sensors (Basel) Article The increasing air pollution across the globe has given rise to a global health crisis that is increasing at an alarming rate. Every year, millions of people lose their lives due to health risks caused by air pollutants. Hence, there is a pressing need for better solutions to accurately measure the amount of air pollution. This work is aimed at designing a highly compact, accurate, low-cost, self-resettable, and easy-to-use gravimetric-based particulate matter sensor solution for portable applications. Previous attempts have failed to realize true miniaturization, due to the size constraints of the virtual impactor needed—a mechanism that segregates the particulate matters based on their sizes. Our complete particulate matter sensor solution consists of three components (i) a piezoelectric resonating membrane, (ii) a virtual impactor, and (iii) a thermophoretic mechanism to reset the sensor. This paper presents a novel design of the virtual impactor, based on a folded configuration. This helps realize the entire system in a volume of 20 mm × 20 mm × 10 mm. We report here the design, working principles, fabrication, and experimental results of the virtual impactor. MDPI 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8914756/ /pubmed/35270874 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22051727 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Singh, Navpreet Elsayed, Mohannad Y. El-Gamal, Mourad N. Towards the World’s Smallest Gravimetric Particulate Matter Sensor: A Miniaturized Virtual Impactor with a Folded Design |
title | Towards the World’s Smallest Gravimetric Particulate Matter Sensor: A Miniaturized Virtual Impactor with a Folded Design |
title_full | Towards the World’s Smallest Gravimetric Particulate Matter Sensor: A Miniaturized Virtual Impactor with a Folded Design |
title_fullStr | Towards the World’s Smallest Gravimetric Particulate Matter Sensor: A Miniaturized Virtual Impactor with a Folded Design |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards the World’s Smallest Gravimetric Particulate Matter Sensor: A Miniaturized Virtual Impactor with a Folded Design |
title_short | Towards the World’s Smallest Gravimetric Particulate Matter Sensor: A Miniaturized Virtual Impactor with a Folded Design |
title_sort | towards the world’s smallest gravimetric particulate matter sensor: a miniaturized virtual impactor with a folded design |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8914756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270874 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22051727 |
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