Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar
sala 1.40, ul. Pasteura 5
2019-03-01 (09:30) 
Piotr Korczyk (IPPT PAN)
Can droplets count?
Multiple pipetting is a standard laboratory procedure resulting in the compartmentalisation of a liquid sample into multiple small portions with varying concentrations of reagents. Microfluidics offers a set of techniques, which can replace that process with the use of tiny droplets. In microfluidic channels, such droplets can be precisely processed, stored and analyzed.
The passive manipulation on droplets is an interesting and promising approach for the design of microfluidic devices which on one hand are easy-to-use and on another hand, execute complex laboratory procedures. I will show the new approach to the construction of microfluidic geometries, which perform the logic operations on sequences of droplets.
Presented devices show the fascinating aspect of microfluidics, where continuous flows of liquids crossed in microfluidic junction spontaneously transform into the discrete droplets and then these droplets perform computations encoded into the architecture of the device.
The passive manipulation on droplets is an interesting and promising approach for the design of microfluidic devices which on one hand are easy-to-use and on another hand, execute complex laboratory procedures. I will show the new approach to the construction of microfluidic geometries, which perform the logic operations on sequences of droplets.
Presented devices show the fascinating aspect of microfluidics, where continuous flows of liquids crossed in microfluidic junction spontaneously transform into the discrete droplets and then these droplets perform computations encoded into the architecture of the device.