Team Members
Tresa Elias
Emma Foley
Catherine Hauser
Supervisors
James McGrath, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, UR
Customers
Greg Madejski, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, UR
Description
We are designing a device that will provide a cost-effective method for characterizing whether a particle in water is a plastic or nonplastic, as well as categorizing the subtype of plastic. The device will need to be effective on a scale of approximately one to five microns, which is the size of the microplastic particles. For more information, please see our abstract on page 2.
![Microplastic beads on a silicon wafer, imaged with a microscope.](https://www.hajim.rochester.edu/senior-design-day/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/47-screen_shot_20200417_at_11.16.01_am-1024x800.png)
Our team logo Microplastic contaminants