本期学术论坛由Queensland Micro andNanotechnology Centre主任 Prof. Nam-Trung Nguyen主讲
题目：Liquid marble based digital microfluidics:fundamental physics and applications
报告人：Prof. Nam-Trung Nguyen
时间： 2018年6月12日，上午10:00
地点：机械楼南高厅
报告摘要：
Liquid marbles (LMs) aredroplets with volume of typically microliters coated with hydrophobic powder.The versatility, ease of use and low cost make LMs an attractive platform fordigital microfluidics. The talk will report our recent discoveries in thephysics of liquid marbles (LMs) that allow them to serve as miniature labs.First, a novel LM manipulation technique using dielectrophoresis (DEP) will bereported. Using this manipulation technique, the coalescence of two LMs wasdemonstrated via vertical collision. Next, the robustness of LMs wasinvestigated in terms of evaporation and structural deformation. Wedemonstrated that a LM cluster can survive thermal cycling conditions up to 95°C in a humidity controlledenvironment. The robustness of a LM in terms of elasticity was alsoinvestigated. Experimental results were compared with simulation based oncoarse grained molecular dynamics. The above proof-of-concept data show thatliquid marbles are suitable for applications such as large-scalethree-dimensional cell culture and high-throughput digital PCR.
报告人简介：
Prof.Nguyen received his Dip-Ing, Dr Ing and Dr Ing Habil degrees from ChemnitzUniversity of Technology, Germany, in 1993, 1997 and 2004, respectively. Thehabilitation degree (Dr Ing Habil ) is the qualification for a fullprofessorship in Germany. In 1998, he was a postdoctoral research engineer inthe Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (University of California at Berkeley,USA). Prof. Nguyen is the First Runner Up of Inaugural ProSPER. Net-ScopusYoung Scientist Awards in Sustainable Development in 2009 and the Runner Up ofASAIHL-Scopus Young Scientist Awards in 2008. He is a Fellow of ASME and aMember of IEEE. Nguyen’s researchis focused on microfluidics, nanofluidics, micro/nanomachining technologies,micro/nanoscale science, and instrumentation for biomedical applications. Hepublished over 340 journal papers with over 13,000 citations (GoogleScholar) and field 8 patents, of which 3 were granted. Among the books he haswritten, the first and second editions of the bestseller “Fundamentals and Applications ofMicrofluidics” were published in2002 and 2006, respectively. His latest book “Nanofluidics” was published in 2009. Thesecond edition of the bestselling book “Micromixer” was acquired and published byElsevier in 2011.
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