Topology Optimization using a GCMMA optimization algorithm and the lattice Boltzmann method to find the optimal material layout for a micro-mixer. Two miscible (Red and blue) fluids enter a channel and should be mixed at the outlet. The evolution of the channel design is displayed on top with green being solid material and white being [...]
This pacman-like animation demonstrates a conceptual microfluidic device in which fluid is flowing through a series of interconnected channels. When the fluid reaches a corner in the channel it experiences an impulsive force which drives it out of the corner. The fluid is wetting relative to the channel surface so surface tension pulls the droplet [...]
The JetXpert system (drop in flight analysis system) is now available with an add-on for nozzle plate visualization. This option has two cameras and two light sources. The face plate wetting module can save images and movies like the JetXpert system. Duration : 0:0:17
This is a demonstration of a dual brushed DC motor peristaltic pump control. This configuration can be used in microfluidics, fluidic mixing in industrial and other commercial settings. This compact controller is fully controlled via the USB. Duration : 0:5:7
University of Vermont’s Dr. Jane Hill’s Lab of the Engineering Department – animation on a section of research conducted by members of the lab. Animation by Katie Medrek. September 27, 2009. Duration : 0:0:35
This video shows droplet libraries which have been generated in capillary tubing using miniature droplet generators. The droplets are encapsulated in silicone oil. Each droplet is chemically isolated from the others and from the walls of the tubing. Trains of droplets in a ‘spool format’ can serve as miniature chemical libraries for high throughput screening. [...]
Encapsulation of eukaryotic cells in alginate using commercially available microtubing. Liquid alginate droplets with encapsulated cells enter from the left. A crosslinking agent (barium chloride, stained with green dye for visualization) enters from the top. Hydrodynamic interactions in the T-junction adds a fixed amount of crosslinking agent to each droplet. Throughputs of up to 20 [...]
BioFlux provides a fully integrated solution for running biologically relevant cellular assays under shear flow. The system utilizes Fluxion’s Well Plate Microfluidics™ (WPM) to provide high content results from a convenient well-plate format. Precise control over shear flow enables a wide variety of cellular and microbiology applications which call for vascular emulation, mechanical stress, compound/buffer [...]
Swarms of bacteria turn two 380-micron long gears, opening the possibility of building hybrid biological machines at the microscopic scale. Read more at Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/bacterial-micro-machine/#more-15684 or Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brownian-motion-bacteria Courtesy Igor Aronson. Duration : 0:0:21
Shows the deposition of liposomes on to the surface of an optical chip and their subsequent rupture and merger to form a lipid bilayer. Protein molecules then embed and float in the surface of the bilayer. This is an excerpt from a video that iemedia solutions (http://www.iemedia.co.uk) produced for the Scientific Instrumentation Division of the [...]