Sorting Machine – Skittles and M &M
Skittles M&M’s Sorting Machine ( image credit: IVC wiki) The machine is fully autonomous and will sort an entire 1.5kg/56oz bag in approx. 5 minutes. It is made of an [more...]
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Microfluidic Hydraulic Circuits-Hydraulic Resistance and Capacitance
This tutorial video is from Cornell University Mechanical Engineering 6240 – Physics of Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics – 29 Aug 2012. A discussion of the matrix formalism for solving P=QR [more...]
Laminar flow patterning in microfluidic devices
This video tutorial is from Cornell University Mechanical Engineering 6240 – Physics of Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics on Sep 5th 2012. A discussion of two examples of laminar flow patterning [more...]
Dancing Magnetotactic Bacteria
Magnetotactic bacteria linedancing on music through the use of a superimposed magnetic field Tijmen Hageman from Korean Institute of Science and Technology Europe (KIST) in collaboration with theUniversity of Twente won the 2014 [more...]
Acoustofluidic control of bubble size in microfluidic flow-focusing configuration
This paper reports a method to control the bubble size generated in a microfluidic flow-focusing configuration. With an ultrasonic transducer, we induce acoustic streaming using a forward moving, oscillating gas-liquid [more...]
Microfluidics Support Plate Milling with High Speed CNC Machine
Microfluidics support plates are used for the distribution of minimal amounts of liquids (Microfluidics) in medical technology. The challenge in milling is the precise and burr-free reproduction of the geometries, [more...]
CellSqueeze microfluidic chips
Intracellular delivery of macromolecules has long been a challenge in both research and therapeutic applications. Prof. Klavs Jensen and Prof. Robert Langer of MIT recognized this challenge and organized a [more...]
A Decentralized Surveillance System for Measles and Rubella Powered by Paper-Based Digital Microfluidics
Fig 1. Microfluidic device ( Credit: Wheeler Microfluidics Laboratory) Grand Chanllenges Canada reported that a decentralized monitoring system based on DropBot and digital microfluidics will be used to test for measles and rubella [more...]
High Resolution Cell Positioning for Enhancing Deformability Mapping
Developed Cell Positioning System by Shinya Sakuma et al. from Osaka University, Japan The dispersion of cell deformability mapping is affected not only by the resolution of the sensing system, [more...]
Microfluidic Device Catching Roaming Cancer Cells
This is an interesting old video found on youtube which talking about the research of German Drazer, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University and [more...]
Microfluidic platforms with superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic channels
Megaridis and his team from University of Illinois at Chicago published a paper ” Wettability patterning for high-rate, pumpless fluid transport on open, non-planar microfluidic platforms” on Lab Chip ( 2014,14,1538-1550, [more...]
3D Acoustic Levitation-Particle Manipulation
Japanese scientists have been successful in moving an object in a three-dimensional space through a complex system of acoustic levitation, surpassing previous research endeavors that lifted the objects in two [more...]
Piezoelectric Generator and Actuator
This video is a tutorial of how to examine the piezoelectric elements in a lighter and a buzzer. The steps of disassembly as well as testing and exploration are shown. [more...]
Flow Cytometry and Inkjet Technology
Cytometry is a general name for a group of biological methods used to measure various parameters of cells. Parameters which can be measured by cytometry are cell size and morphology, [more...]
Beauty of Science: Droplet Dancing-I
This video covers the spontaneous motion of dyed liquid droplets as they interact with one another. After explaining surface tension’s role, the video reveals several cool examples of this [more...]
Organs-on-Chips
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today announced that its human ‘Organs-on-Chips’ technology will be commercialized by a newly formed private company to accelerate development of [more...]
Nanomotor in Drug Delivery Application
Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin say they have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running synthetic motor to date. The nanomotor is [more...]
Ultra Highspeed Micromachining with End Mill
Ultra Highspeed Micromachining with End Mill from Mohawk Innovative Technology. This micromachining approach is useful in fabricating micro structures on mold inserts or some micro components directly on metal substrates, [more...]
MEMS Gas Sensors
Miniaturized electronic “noses” offer intriguing prospects, such as exhaled-breath analysis and environmental air-quality monitoring with portable devices and mobile phones. Yet detecting the resultant tiny frequency shifts in [more...]
An integrated CMOS quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction lab-on-chip for point-of-care diagnostics
Considerable effort has recently been directed toward the miniaturization of quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction (qPCR) instrumentation in an effort to reduce both cost and form factor for point-of-care applications. Considerable gains [more...]
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