Argus Vattenkvalitetssensor av Harpreet Singh Sareen

Designen Argus Vattenkvalitetssensor av Harpreet Singh Sareen är en högt ansedd vinnare av den mycket prestigefyllda 2021 A' Design Award i Silver i tävlingskategorin Kybernetik-, Protes- och Implantatdesign.

SilverKybernetik· 2021

Argus Vattenkvalitetssensor

av Harpreet Singh Sareen

Klient: Parsons School of Design

Vinnare av A' Design Award i Silver i kategorin Kybernetik

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Om Argus Vattenkvalitetssensor

Argus är ett system för övervakning av vattenkvalitet baserat på en levande växt. Nanosensorer injiceras i bladen, där de stannar kvar inom det intercellulära utrymmet. Sensorerna producerar ett synligt sken med en specifik ljusvåglängd. När bly från det omgivande vattnet når bladen minskar skenet, vilket indikerar att vattnet innehåller föroreningar. Växten provtar vatten kontinuerligt och behöver ingen elektricitet. Ett resultat visas inom femton minuter till två timmar, vilket är snabbare än laboratorietester.

Erkännandet

Om A' Design Award i Silver

Argus Vattenkvalitetssensor är vinnare av A' Design Award i Silver, ett utomordentligt prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas förstklassiga, hänförande och imponerande designverk i toppskiktet. Silvervinnare är oerhört briljanta och utomordentligt kreativa verk som illustrerar sina formgivares enastående expertis, talang och skarpsinne. Argus Vattenkvalitetssensor förväntas vara ett underbart paradexempel som är anmärkningsvärt professionellt och djupt innovativt. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Silver är en mycket uppmärksammad, beundrad uppfinning som gagnar och flyttar fram gränserna för konst, vetenskap, design och teknik. Argus Vattenkvalitetssensor är en skapelse som avundas starkt, som väcker längtan, förmedlar positiva känslor och väcker förundran och häpnad.

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Erkännanden, teammedlemmar och tekniska detaljer tillhandahållna av designern.

Unika egenskaper: Argus is a living plant that continuously monitors water for heavy metal impurities, with nanosensors inside its leaves. These sensors, of the order 2nm, are injected inside the leaves and stay within the intercellular space. A living plant continuously samples water in the environment and any impurities that come along with it. Such method of detecting heavy metal toxicity is real time, showing a visible output within 15mins to 2 hours, in contrast to current lab methods.
Dimensioner & förpackning: 457mm x 821mm x 304mm
This includes height of the plant and the imaging setup to read from inside a plant
Taggar: nanosensors, carbon nanotubes, living plants, DNA, water monitoring
Produktionsteknik: Argus is a plant with DNA nanosensors inside it that detects Lead (Pb2 Heavy Metal). This novel method allows living plants to provide an optical readout of Lead in water. First, a DNAZyme is used as sensor assay inside leaves, double stranded DNA that breaks into single stranded on contact with Pb2 and binds to single walled carbon nanotubes. Following introduction of Pb2 ions, the fluorescence output is quenched and this reduction is proportional to the Lead(II) concentration.
Designutmaning: The following challenges had to be overcome to create world's first electricity free water monitoring platform.
No current real time off the shelf sensors exist for Lead toxicity monitoring. Sample testing takes approximately 1 to 2 weeks.
The chemical sensors inside plants also needed a digital connection with the digital world.
This sensor scheme did not have to use electricity, since it relies on a plant acting like a motor. Such process is then able to sample water 24 hours a day.
Forskning: Industrial waste management has lead to depletion of water quality in rivers in many regions. Current processes of monitoring the water quality are not realtime. Our traditional sensors have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. We propose new nanosensors providing auxiliary sensing in conjunction with the natural system of a plant. These nanosensors provide an optical readout of lead in water by relying on a plants natural function near riverbeds.
Inspiration: This project is motivated by Flint water crisis, New Jersey school water problems, Austin Mar 2019 water advisory and many more. Current trend shows that by the time impurities are usually found in residential or agricultural, it is too late and has previously proven to be fatal. This is because continuous, cheap or off the shelf monitoring methods along river beds do not exist today. Argus on the other hand, provides an electricity free fully continuous water monitoring platform.
Projektlängd: This project was stated in 2017 and finished in 2019. It has been exhibited around the world such as Science Gallery Bangalore, Future of Everything WSJ Festival in NYC.
Arbetsflöde: Argus has nanonsensors injected inside the leaves of a living plant. A plant is like a natural motor in the environment operating twenty four hours without electricity. It continuously samples water and with that any impurities as well. Our nanosensors normally produce a visible glow of a specific light wavelength on the plant. When lead impurities from the environment come in contact with the nanosensors, this glow disappears to indicate that there are impurities in the environment.
Teammedlemmar: Harpreet Sareen
Pattie Maes
Bildkrediteringar: Images: Harpreet Sareen CC 4.0
Motion graphics: Jiefu Zheng