Motivation: Nano- and Microfluidics

          Microfluidic networks

Tabelling, Introduction to Microfluidics, Oxford (2005)


Physics of flows at the nano-scale  
Simple and complex fluids 
Qualitatively  different behavior as compared to macroscopic flows
Understand natural "microdevices"
Lab-on-a-chip technology
Long term goal: automation of complex chemical and biological 
        processes





Terray et al. Science 296:1841 (2002)

Droplet generation


Soft lithography: PDMS channels

Duffy et al. Anal. Chem. 70:4974 (1998)

 Squires & Quake, Rev. Mod. Phys. 77:977 (2005)