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November 9-13, 2009
| Organizers: |
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Martin Z. Bazant
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Mathematics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
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Sandip Ghosal
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Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern, University |
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Susan J. Muller
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Chemical Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley |
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Ali Nadim
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Mathematical Sciences, Claremont
Graduate University |
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Todd Squires
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Chemical Engineering, University
of California, Santa Barbara |
Description:
Microfluidics is the science of fluid motion on
microscopic scales, roughly 100 nanometers to 100 microns. In
this regime
inertial effects are negligible and interfacial effects, i.e.,
surface
tension, capillarity, electrostatic charge, etc. dominate. The
subject has
emerged as an area of intense interest in the applied sciences
because
of applications in nanotechnology and bio-analytical chemistry.
The
workshop will focus on topics in the basic science of ionic
fluids:
zeta potentials, Debye Layers, electroosmosis and
electrophoresis;
interfacial effects and applications such as controlled droplet
motion
by electrowetting, and the Brownian hydrodynamics of
macromolecules
and polymers.
Schedule not yet available.
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