Summary
Maintaining safe drinking water requires detecting trace-level amounts of harmful contaminants quickly. However, many water systems use laboratory tests that are slow and expensive. This CAREER project will create a faster, low-cost way to check drinking water for harmful chemicals by combining a chemical sensor with artificial intelligence (AI). The project will use a method that measures how light is scattered from chemicals attached to a surface. Each chemical generates its own pattern, like a fingerprint, that can be read. Drinking water may contain a collection of chemicals. The proje
