Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit (Amy Shen)

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Congratulations to Steffen for winning the Best Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Award at the 95th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology!

Steffen receievd the Best Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Award (1st place) at the 95th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology held in Austin, Texas from October 13th to 17th, 2024. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Vincenzo Calabrese and Simon Haward for their publication on Macromolecules!

Congratulations to Vincenzo Calabrese and Simon Haward on their recent paper published "How Do Polymers Stretch in Capillary-Driven Extensional Flows?" !

Congratulations to Kohei for being awarded FY2025 Overseas Research Fellowships!

Congratulations to Kohei for being awarded FY2025 Overseas Research Fellowships on his project titled "Elucidation of coalescence kinetics of particle-stabilized bubbles stimulated by irradiation of ultrasound waves”!

Congratulation to Arisa for being awarded FY2025 DC1 Research Fellowships!

Congratulations to Arisa for being awarded FY2025 DC1 Research Fellowships on her project titled "Unraveling mechanism of wave pattern emergence around micro-ciliated structures in viscoelastic fluids”!

Congratulations to Fabian Hillebrand for his publication on Soft Matter!

Congratulations to Fabian Hillebrand on his recent paper published "Flow of wormlike micellar solutions over concavities" !

Congratulations to Murali Mohan Jaligam for his publication on Nanoscale!

Congratulations to Murali Mohan Jaligam on his recent paper published "Enhanced Antibacterial Efficacy: Rapid Analysis of Silver-Decorated Azithromycin-Infused Soluplus® Nanoparticles Against E. coli and S. epidermidis Biofilms" !

Almuni update: Murali took an assistant professor position in SRM University in Chennai, India.

Murali Mohan Jaligam will join SRM University in Chennai, India as an assistant professor. Congratulations!

Alumni update: Eliane took an assistant professor position in INSA lyon/ CETHIL in France.

Our former postdoc, Eliane Younes, will join INSA lyon/ CETHIL in France as an assistant professor. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Kohei for being awarded Kakenhi!

Congratulations to Kohei for being awarded 2024 Kakenhi on his project titled "Buoyancy-Induced Circulation in Microchannels”!

Congratulations to Vincenzo for being awarded Kakenhi!

Congratulations to Vincenzo for being awarded 2024 Kakenhi on his project titled "Polymer Conformational History's Role in Polymeric Liquids”!

Congratulations to Simon for being awarded Kakenhi-C!

Congratulations to Simon for being awarded 2024 Kakenhi C on his project titled "Large Amplitude Oscillatory Extension (LAOE)”!

Congratulations to Amy and Simon for being awarded Kakenhi-B (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research)!

Congratulations to Amy and Simon for being awarded 2024 Kakenhi B on their project titled "Canopy Elastic Turbulence”!

Congratulations to Ricardo Arturo Lopez de la Cruz for being awarded 2023 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career)!

Congratulations to Ricardo Arturo Lopez de la Cruz for being awarded 2023 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career) on his project titled "Elastic turbulence in micro canopy flows, effects of rheology and geometry”!

Congratulations to Benjamin Heidt for being awarded 2023 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career)!

Congratulations to Benjamin Heidt for being awarded 2023 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career) on his project titled "Eleprep: Developing a Modular Electrochemical-Microfluidic Biosensor for Simultaneous Detection of Seven Foodborne Pathogens”!

Congratulations to Simon Haward for his publication on Journal of Rheology!

Congratulations to Simon Haward on his recent paper published "Extensional rheometry of mobile fluids" in the Journal of Rheology, which is published in two parts!: "Part I: OUBER, an optimized uniaxial and biaxial extensional rheometer" and "Part II: Comparison between the uniaxial, planar, and biaxial extensional rheology of dilute polymer solutions using numerically optimized stagnation point microfluidic devices"

Congratulations to San To Chan for his most recent publication in Journal of Rheology!

Congratulation to San To Chan for his perspective article " Perspective on edge fracture” in the Journal of Rheology!

Congratulations to Tatiana Porto Santos and Vincenzo Calabrese for their publication on Journal of Colloid and Interface Science!

Congratulations to Tatiana Porto Santos and Vincenzo Calabrese on their recent article published in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, examining the effect of shear flow on the alignment state of protein nanofibril dispersions.

Congratulations to Vincenzo Calabrese for his most resent Macromolecules publication!

Congratulation to Vincenzo Calabrese for publishing his paper titled " Microstructural Dynamics and Rheology of Worm-like Diblock Copolymer Nanoparticle Dispersions under a Simple Shear and a Planar Extensional Flow” on Macromolecules!

Congratulations to Daniel Carlson for his JFM publication!

First introduced at the 2022 Gallery of Rheology, our eye-catching work on porous media flow is now online at JFM! Carlson et al. leverage 3-D flow measurements to capture a unique description of elastic turbulence at micro-scale.

Congratulation to Stelios Varchanis for being awarded 2022 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career)!

Congratulation to Stelios Varchanis for being awarded 2022 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career) on his project titled "Interaction of non-Newtonian fluids with deformable structures in microscale biological processes”!

Congratulation to Vincenzo Calabrese for being awarded 2022 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career)!

Congratulation to Vincenzo Calabrese for being awarded 2022 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career) on his project titled "Colloidal-rods for examining polymer dynamics in complex flows”!

Congratulation to Vikram for being awarded 2021 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career)!

Congratulation to Vikram for being awarded 2021 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career) on his project titled "Pressure driven flow of dense suspensions in confinement"!

Congratulation to Dan for receiving 2021 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists)!

Congratulation to Dan for being awarded 2021 Kakenhi (Grants-in-aid for scientific research C) on his project titled "Micro-tomographic measurements of elastic turbulence"!

Congratulation to Simon for receiving 2021 Kakenhi (Grants-in-aid for scientific research C)!

Congratulation to Simon for being awarded 2021 Kakenhi (Grants-in-aid for scientific research C) on his project titled "3D microfluidics for extensional rheometry"!

Congratulation to Santo for receiving 2020 JSPS DC2 Fellowship!

Congratulation to Santo for being awarded 2020 JSPS DC2 Fellowship on his project titled "A novel method for high-speed high-precision printing of yield stress viscoelastic liquids"!

Congratulation to Ainash for receiving 2020 JSPS DC2 Fellowship!

Congratulation to Ainash for being awarded 2020 JSPS DC2 Fellowship on her project titled "Novel Microfluidic Platform for Ultrasensitive Measurement of Intermolecular Interactions"!

Congratulation to Charlotte for receiving 2020 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up)!

Congratulation to Charlotte for being awarded 2020 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists) on her project titled "Hydrodynamic couplings inside a biomimetic array of passive cilia-like structures"!

Congratulations to Paul's new publication: Hybrid microfluidics platform for studying electrotaxis of glioblastoma

Paul's work published in APL Bioengineering has been featured on AIP Scilight, see link here!

"Tsai et al demonstrated a hybrid microfluidic platform for studying glioblastoma electrotaxis. By combining the microfluidic system with a high-throughput machine learning approach for single cell tracking, the group observed how voltage-gated ion channels influence cell movements in two different models of glioblastoma, and charted the effects of the ion channels on cancer cell migration."

Congratulation to Riccardo for receiving 2020 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists)!

Congratulation to Riccardo for being awarded 2020 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists) on his project titled "Development of a dual-mode optical/microgravimetric biosensor for the detection of three prostate cancer biomarkers"!

Congratulations to Cameron and Simon on the back cover image in Small

Congratulations to Cameron and Simon on the back cover image in Small, with special thanks to Kazumi for the image design!

Congratulation to Cameron for receiving 2020 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists)!

Congratulation to Cameron for being awarded 2020 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists) on his project titled "Purely Elastic Flow-induced Vibrations of Microcylinders: Viscoelastic Fluid-Structure Interaction in Microfluidics"!

Congratulations to Rameez and Atsushi on their cover image, based on our collaboration with Prof. Ashis Sen’s group at IIT, Madras!

Congratulations to Rameez and Atsushi’ article on APL cover, our collaboration with Prof. Ashis Sen’s group at IIT, Madras!

Congratulation to Atsushi for receiving 2019 Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists)!

Congratulation to Atsushi for receiving Kakenhi (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists) in April 2019 on his project titled "Elucidating the unusual charge screening effect on the polymer dynamics of polymerized ionic liquids"!

Congratulations to Simon and Kazi's article on the Journal cover!

Congratulations to Simon and Kazi's Soft Matter article on the Journal cover!

Congratulation to Shivani for receiving JSPS DC2 fellowship!

Congratulation to Shivani for receiving JSPS DC2 fellowship on her research in micro/nanofluidic immunoassays!

Congratulations to Simon's Physics of Fluids article on the Journal cover!

Congratulation to Shivani for receiving JASSO's “Monbukagakusho Honor’s Scholarship” award!

Congratulation to Kei-san for receiving excellent contribution award!

Congratulations to Shivani and Nikhil’s Advanced BioSystems article on the Journal cover

Congratulations to Nikhil and Shivani on their Advanced Biosystems article: "Large‐Scale Nanophotonic Structures for Long‐Term Monitoring of Cell Proliferation, April 2018. The beautiful cover image was made by Shivani! See https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23667478/2/4

Congratulations to Noa and Simon on their PRX article!

Congratulations to Noa and Simon on their recent article published in Physical Review X, examining the formation of vortices in fluids with and without added polymers, by using in a special microfluidic device. Also, check out the article related to this work: Taming Charybdis: Controlling a Vortex Using Polymers.

Congratulations to Ainash and Nikhil's Analytical Methods article on the Journal cover

Congratulations to Ainash and Nikhil on their Analytical Methods article: "Probing Specific Gravity in Real-time With Graphene Oxide Plasmonics”, published in January 2018 (hot article of the journal!). The cool cover image was made by Ainash! See DOI: 10.1039/C7AY02423A

Congratulations to Francesco and Shivani’s Analytical Chemistry article on the Journal cover

Congratulations to Francesco and Shivani on their Analytical Chemistry article: "From the edge to the center: viscoelastic migration of particles and cells in a strongly shear-thinning liquid flowing in a microchannel", December 2017. The beautiful cover image was made by Shivani! See http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02450

Francesco Del Giudice et al. have been awarded a Soft Matter poster prize

Francesco Del Giudice et al. have been awarded a Soft Matter poster prize for their work “The μ-rheometer: an effective microfluidic platform to measure relaxation time of weakly viscoelastic polymer solutions”. The prize was received at the Annual European Rheology Conference 2017 held in Copenhagen.

Francesco and Simon's JOR article on the Journal cover!

Congratulations to Francesco and Simon on their Journal of Rheology article: Relaxation time of dilute polymer solutions: a microfluidic approach, Journal of Rheology, 2017, 61, 327. Our cover image can be found in the March/April issue of Journal of Rheology.

Our work on the the flow around a micropost is selected for the cover image in the Soft Matter. Congratulations to Simon and Ya

The beautiful cover image was made by Simon and Ya! Article link: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2016/sm/c6sm01597b

Our work on dual-mode sensor is selected for the cover image in the Nanoscale. Congratulations to Nikhil, Doojin, and Shivani!

The cool cover image was made by Shivani! Article link: http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C6NR07664E