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Yichen Wu is a doctoral student in electrical engineering and the primary researcher on the C-Air Project, a particle detector that calculates the amount of pollution in air. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)

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UCLA researchers develop low-cost pollution-detection systems

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UCLA engineering researchers developed a low-cost mobile imaging system that detects and quantifies air pollution. The Ozcan Research Group designed C-Air, a particle detector capable of sizing pollutants in a sample of air.

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UCLA researchers develop low-cost pollution-detection systems

By Prateek Puri

Nov. 1, 2016 12:38 a.m.