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Sensors 2010, 10, 3641-3654; doi:10.3390/s100403641 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A Miniature System for Separating Aerosol Particles and Measuring Mass Concentrations Dao Liang 1, Wen-Pin Shih 1,*, Chuin-Shan Chen 2 and Chi-An Dai 3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan; E-Mail: daniel@ 2 Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan; E-Mail: dchen@.tw 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan; E-Mail: polymer@.tw * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: wpshih@.tw; Tel.: +886-2-3366-4511; Fax: +886-2-2363-1755. Received: 3 February 2010; in revised form: 6 April 2010 / Accepted: 7 April 2010 / Published: 12 April 2010 Abstract: We designed and fabricated a new sensing system which consists of two virtual impactors and two quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM) sensors for measuring particle mass concentration and size distribution. The virtual impactors utilized different inertial forces of particles in air flow to classify different particle sizes. They were designed to classify particle diameter, d, into three different ranges: d 2.28 μm, 2.28 μm ≤ d ≤ 3.20 μm, d 3.20 μm. The QCM sensors were coated with a hydrogel, which was found to be a reliable adhesive for capturing aerosol particles. The QCM sensor coated with hydrogel was used to measure the mass