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2009 GEM4 Summer School - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lecture 5: Mechanics insights into the pathophysiology of human disease; Microfluidics approaches to studying human diseases
20 Jul 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Chwee Teck Lim
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Analyzing Disaster: A nanoscale guy stumbles into a mega problem
22 Jun 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Steve Wereley
Steve Wereley discusses how his knowledge and use of a technique called particle image velocimetry (PIV) led to a game-changing calculation of a flow rate for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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BNC Annual Research Symposium: Bio-Nanotechnology and Biomedical Devices
23 Apr 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Rashid Bashir
This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.
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BNC Research Review: The Birck Nanotechnology Center-Progress, Opportunitiees, and Challenges
04 Jun 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Timothy D. Sands
This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.
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BP Oil Spill Physics Challenge
17 Feb 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Steve Wereley
On May 13 Professor Wereley used optical feature tracking to estimate the volume flow of oil from the on-going BP Macondo oil field spill. Several other independent scientists also performed similar measurements at about the same time. These several measurements were all in the ballpark of...
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Circuits on Cellulose: From Transistors to LEDs, from Displays to Microfluidics on Paper
14 Feb 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Andrew Steckl
In this lecture I will review the use of cellulose-based paper as a material in a variety of electronic (and related) applications, including transistors, light emitting diodes, displays, microfluidics. Paper is a very attractive material for many device applications: very low cost, available in...
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Controlling Membrane Organization: Effects of pH, Ions, and composition
23 Mar 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Jennifer Hovis
Our main research interests are in determining, at the molecular level, how cell membranes are organized and how that organization relates to function. The primary molecular building blocks of cell membranes are lipids, amphipathic molecules that assemble into two opposed leaflets forming a...
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Droplet Microfluidics for High-Throughput Chemical Analysis and Experimentation
22 Mar 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Robert Kennedy
Manipulating samples as droplets within microfluidic devices has emerged as an interesting approach for chemical analysis and screening. In segmented flow, one embodiment of this technology, nanoliter samples are manipulated in microfluidic channels as plugs separated by an immiscible fluid, such...
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E304 L9.1.1: Nanofluidics - Reynolds Number
15 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: ASSIST ERC
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E304 L9.1.2: Nanofluidics - Fluid Forces at the Nanoscale
15 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: ASSIST ERC
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E304 L9.1.4: Nanofluidics - Surface Effects at the Nanoscale
15 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: ASSIST ERC
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E304 L9.1.5: Nanofluidics - Application: Electrokinetic Pumps
15 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: ASSIST ERC
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Illinois CNST Annual Nanotechnology Workshop 2010 Lecture 12: Multiscale Analysis of Silicon NEMS
30 Jan 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Narayan Aluru
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Illinois ME 498 Introduction of Nano Science and Technology, Lecture 11: Transport and Electrokenetics in Nanoscale Fluids
06 Oct 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Nick Fang, Omar N Sobh
Transport and Electrokenetics Topics: Back to Constitutive Equations Coupled Heat and Electron Conduction Thermoelectric Cooling New Directions for Nano-Thermoelectricity State-of-the-Art in Thermoelectrics Hornet Skin: A Natural heat Pump Coupled Charge-Mass Transport in Fluid
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Introduction of MEMS Activity at Nano/Micro System Engineering Lab., Kyoto University
15 Sep 2007 | | Contributor(s):: OSAMU TABATA
We are aiming at the realization of microsystems and nanosystems with novel and unique functions by integrating functional elements in different domains such as mechanics, electronics, chemistry, optics and biotechnology. These micro/nano systems are expected to be novel machines, which will...
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Introduction to Microfluidics
11 Oct 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Terry Kuzma, NACK Network
Prof. Terence Kuzma will discuss how modern manufacturing processes are used to create lab on a chip devices. He will discuss the unique physics of fluids on the microscale, and the solutions to meet these challenges.
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KIST/PU Phage Display Selection of Tissue-Specific Homing Peptides and their Theragnostic Applications
23 Oct 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Byung-Heon Lee
Several homing peptides that are specific to tumor cells, artherosclerotic plaques, stroke lesion, apoptotic cells and phosphatidylserine have been isolated by phage display in our laboratory. For example, the Bld-1 peptide is specific to bladder tumor cells and the AP-1 to atherosclerotic...
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ME 290R Lecture 9: Lithography for MEMS and Microfluidics
08 May 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Taylor, Hayden
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Measuring Disaster: the magnitude of the BP oil spill
09 Nov 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Steve Wereley
On May 13 Professor Wereley used optical feature tracking to estimate the volume flow of oil from the on-going BP Macondo oil field spill.
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Microfluidics: Hands-On Computational Examples
12 Oct 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Atilla Ozgur Cakmak, NACK Network
Simulation of a microfluidic channel to separate red blood cells will also be covered as an immediate application.