Microfluidics Adventures #1: Physics at the microscale
The Microfluidics Adventures of the Lutetium Project, part one! In this first video, we’ll tackle the physics of the microscopic world. You’ll know why the laws of physics seem so weird at the microscale...
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LINKS:
French version: • Aventures microfluidiques #1 : La physique...
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RELATED BOOK:
Patrick Tabeling, Introduction to microfluidics, Oxford University Press (2005) https://books.google.fr/books?id=S9AT...
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MEMs IMAGES FROM:
Bojan Ilic, Harold Craighead, Slava Krylov, Wageesha Senaratne, Christopher Ober, Pavel Neuzil, Attogram detection using nanoelectromechanical oscillators, Journal of Applied Physics 95, 3694 (2004) http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Louis Laberge Lebel, Brahim Aissa, My Ali El Khakani, Daniel Therriault, Ultraviolet-Assisted Direct-Write Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Nanocomposite Microcoils, Advanced Materials 22, 592 (2010) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
Sandia National Laboratories News Releases, New five-level layering process pioneered by Sandia promises more reliable, complex micromachines (1999) http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/N...
Cornell Chronicle, Smallest guitar, about the size of a human blood cell, illustrates new technology for nano-sized electromechanical devices (1997) http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1...
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IMAGES:
Microfluidic chip from Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Proxima https://www.institut-pgg.com
Blood vessels, The Franklin Institute https://www.fi.edu/heart/blood-vessels
Closeup of skeeterbugs floating on the water surface, Daniel Schweinert, Shutterstock https://www.shutterstock.com/video/cl...
Suncus Etruscus, Wikimedia Commons, Trebol-A https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Gear with ant for scale, Wikimedia Commons, Denis Elbl, KIT https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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STRUCTURE OF THE VIDEO:
00:00 Microfluidics: what is it?
00:41 Scaling laws and size effects
02:00 Physics at the microscale
03:48 Conclusion
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CREDITS:
Host:
Marie Boulez
Directing, animation:
Hoon Kwon
Scenario:
Guillaume Durey, Mathias Kasiulis, Arnaud Reitz
Editing:
Léa Bello, Hoon Kwon
Studio, visual identity:
Juliette Nier
Theme music, background music:
Pierre David
Production:
Guillaume Durey, Mathias Kasiulis
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ESPCI Paris – https://www.espci.fr
Espace des sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – https://www.espgg.org
ESPCI Alumni – https://espci.alumni.paris
le Fonds ESPCI Paris – https://www.espci.fr/fr/nous-soutenir...
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