{"id":205478,"date":"2025-02-04T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/thousands-of-tiny-time-aware-sensors-can-collectively-map-chemical-concentrations-within-narrow-tubes"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:29:56","slug":"thousands-of-tiny-time-aware-sensors-can-collectively-map-chemical-concentrations-within-narrow-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/thousands-of-tiny-time-aware-sensors-can-collectively-map-chemical-concentrations-within-narrow-tubes","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of tiny, time-aware sensors can collectively map chemical concentrations within narrow tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thousands-of-tiny-time-aware-sensors-can-collectively-map-chemical-concentrations-within-narrow-tubes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When synthesizing chemicals, stationary sensors can collect and communicate detailed data from within a reactor system. Physically installed sensors reach their limitations when it comes to mapping concentrations within a fluid flowing through hard-to-reach areas\u2014particularly within long, narrow tubes.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sensors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sensors<\/a> can be placed on the reactor\u2019s perimeter in an industrial setting, suspending sensors in the center of a pipe would disrupt flow. In a medical application, such as mapping <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+concentrations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical concentrations<\/a> within the intestines to pinpoint <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/internal+bleeding\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">internal bleeding<\/a>, implanted sensors become impractical.<\/p>\n<p>A new framework optimizes the use of time-aware particulate sensors (TAPS)\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tiny+sensor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tiny sensor<\/a> that travels through the system and remembers when it encounters a target chemical\u2014to map these uncharted areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When synthesizing chemicals, stationary sensors can collect and communicate detailed data from within a reactor system. Physically installed sensors reach their limitations when it comes to mapping concentrations within a fluid flowing through hard-to-reach areas\u2014particularly within long, narrow tubes. While sensors can be placed on the reactor\u2019s perimeter in an industrial setting, suspending sensors in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}