MicroTAS 2013 - 27-31 October 2013

Photo Credits - 1:IMTEK/Bernd Müller, 2:©Karl-Heinz Raach, 3-5:FWTM

Workshops / Courses / Tours

Freiburg Historic Tour

Pre-Conference

Workshop 1

Short Course 1

Short Course 2

Short Course 3

Post-Conference

Lab-on-a-Chip Workshop

Agilent Tour

HSG-IMIT Tour

Roche Tour

Short Course 2 - Acoustophoresis

The course is aimed at researchers, engineers, and students who would like to learn about the physics and applications of ultrasound-induced acoustic forces for manipulation of cells and liquids in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices.

Learning Objectives:

To understand the physical principles of ultrasound-induced acoustophoresis in microfluidics.
To understand the pros and cons of utilizing acoustophoresis in lab-on-a-chip systems.
To acquire a broad overview of lab-on-a-chip applications of acoustophoresis

Topics to be Covered in the Course:

Motivating introduction of ultrasound acoustophoresis in lab-on-a-chip systems.
Physics of acoustophoresis: the radiation force on particles and the acoustic streaming of liquids.
Examples of acoustic manipulation of microparticles and liquids in lab-on-a-chip devices.

Course Material:

Four recent tutorial papers by Henrik Bruus published in Lab on a Chip:

Acoustofluidics 1: Governing equations in microfluidics, Lab Chip 11, 3742 (2011).
Acoustofluidics 2: Perturbation theory and ultrasound resonance modes, Lab Chip 12, 20 (2012).
Acoustofluidics 7: The acoustic radiation force on small particles, Lab Chip 12, 1014 (2012).
Acoustofluidics 10: Scaling laws in acoustophoresis, Lab Chip 12, 1578 (2012).

Lecturer:

Henrik Bruus received his Ph.D. degree in physics from Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in 1990, and then worked as postdoc at Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics 1990-92, Yale University 1992-94 and CNRS Grenoble 1994-96. He returned to the Niels Bohr Institute as associate professor 1997-2001, before moving to the Technical University of Denmark in 2001. He became full professor of lab-chip systems in 2005 and of theoretical physics in 2012. His current research interests comprise acoustofluidics, electrokinetics, nanofluidics, the physics of on-chip cell manipulation, the motion of sugar in living plants, and topology-optimized microflows. He has (co)authored 115 journal papers on condensed matter physics and microfluidics, 150 conference papers, and 2 monographs, the latest being "Theoretical Microfluidics", Oxford University Press (2008).

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