Muundo Argus Kihisi cha Ubora wa Maji na Harpreet Singh Sareen ni mshindi mashuhuri wa tuzo ya kifahari ya 2021 Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award katika Kategoria ya Mashindano ya Usanifu wa Saibenetiki, Viungo Bandia na Vipandikizi.
FedhaSaibenetiki· 2021
Argus Kihisi cha Ubora wa Maji
Mteja: Parsons School of Design
Mshindi wa Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award katika Kategoria ya Saibenetiki
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Kuhusu Argus Kihisi cha Ubora wa Maji
Argus ni mfumo wa ufuatiliaji wa ubora wa maji unaotegemea mmea hai. Vihisi vidogo sana (nanosensors) huchomwa kwenye majani, ambapo hubaki ndani ya nafasi kati ya seli. Vihisi hivyo hutoa mng'ao unaoonekana wa urefu maalum wa mawimbi ya mwanga. Risasi kutoka kwenye maji yanayozunguka yanapofika kwenye majani, mng'ao hupungua, ikionyesha kuwa maji yana uchafu. Mmea huchukua sampuli za maji mfululizo na hauhitaji umeme. Matokeo huonekana ndani ya dakika kumi na tano hadi saa mbili, jambo ambalo ni la haraka zaidi kuliko upimaji wa maabara.
Utambuzi
Kuhusu Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award
Argus Kihisi cha Ubora wa Maji ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa ya ajabu unaotolewa kwa miundo ya hali ya juu kabisa, ya kupendeza na ya kuvutia. Washindi wa Fedha ni kazi zinazong'aa mno na bunifu kupita kiasi zinazoonyesha utaalamu bora, kipaji na busara ya wabunifu wao. Argus Kihisi cha Ubora wa Maji inatarajiwa kuwa kazi nzuri ya kuigwa ambayo ni ya kitaalamu kwa kiasi kikubwa na yenye ubunifu wa kina. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award ni uvumbuzi unaojulikana sana na kupendwa, unaonufaisha na kupanua mipaka ya sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia. Argus Kihisi cha Ubora wa Maji ni kazi inayotamaniwa mno inayochochea hamu, huleta hisia chanya na huzua mshangao na mastaajabu.
Nyuma ya Muundo
Vifaa vya Habari
Mikopo, wanachama wa timu na maelezo ya kiufundi yaliyotolewa na mbuni.
- Sifa za Kipekee
- 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.
- Vipimo na Ufungashaji
- 457mm x 821mm x 304mm
This includes height of the plant and the imaging setup to read from inside a plant - Lebo
- nanosensors, carbon nanotubes, living plants, DNA, water monitoring
- Teknolojia ya Uzalishaji
- 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.
- Changamoto ya Ubunifu
- 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. - Utafiti
- 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.
- Msukumo
- 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.
- Muda wa Mradi
- 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.
- Mtiririko wa Uendeshaji
- 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.
- Wanatimu
- Harpreet Sareen
Pattie Maes - Haki za Picha
- Images: Harpreet Sareen CC 4.0
Motion graphics: Jiefu Zheng
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