Dripping, jetting, drips and wetting: the magic of microfluidics

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• Professor David A. Weitz, Harvard University
• Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00
• Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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This talk will discuss the use of microfluidic devices to precisely control the flow and mixing of fluids to make drops, and will explore a variety of uses of these drops. These drops can be used to create new materials that are difficult to synthesize with any other method. These materials have great potential for use for encapsulation and release and for drug delivery and for cosmetics. I will also show how the exquisite control afforded by microfluidic devices provides enabling technology to use droplets as microreactors to perform reactions at remarkably high rates using very small quantities of fluids. I will demonstrate how this can be used for new fundamental and technological applications.

This talk is part of the Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group series.

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