IAMS/NTU/NCTS Seminar 

Title: Microfluidic Technologies to Manufacture Soft Matter Materials
Speaker: Prof. Patrick S. Doyle (Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT & Singapore-MIT Alliance for Science and Technology (SMART))

Time: 10:30 AM, November 15 (Thursday), 2018

Place: Dr. Poe Lecture Hall, IAMS (中研院原分所浦大邦講堂　臺大校園內)
Contact: Dr. Huan-Cheng Chang 張煥正博士

Abstract: In this talk I will describe how microfluidic technologies and various fields (light, temperature and flow) can be used to synthesize new functional soft matter materials. I will begin by introducing Flow Lithography- a new way of interfacing lithography and microfluidics to “optically stamp” complex and functional microparticles. This technique takes advantage of the unique ability to finely structure flows and chemical gradients in microfluidic devices. The process allows one to create particles with complex non-spherical shapes, chemical patterns, and loaded cargo. After describing the fundamental aspects of the process, I will describe applications of the complex particles ranging from multiplexed bioassays to anti-counterfeiting to drug delivery. I will also describe new flow-through arrays which are capable of generating large-scale particle arrangements.