3D Printed Sensors to Assess Water Quality

There are few things more important in this world than water, and access to it - particularly clean, safe water. Unfortunately, there are few things that are harder to come by in many parts of the world. There are many different methods of purifying water, but they almost all have some sort of drawback - cost, unreliability, etc. It's also difficult to determine just how clean, and how safe, a water supply is. 3D printing has opened up new doors into water purification technology, and as UBC Okanagan Professor Mina Hoorfar and her lab are showing, 3D printing is also proving itself to be useful in the development of devices that can assess water quality, as well. In Hoorfar's Advanced Thermo-Fluidic Laboratory, researchers are using 3D printing to create tiny wireless sensors that can operate continuously and be used anywhere in the water system. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/181563/3d-printed...ality-sensors/

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