Time:16-5-2012

        Place:Reportroom of Physics Department

        Speaker:Wang guiren

        Report introduction:

              As a multidisciplinary and new field, micro/nanofluidics based biochip is attracting interest of many scientists and engineers from various areas. Here we introduce the micro/nanofluidic biochip and its applications in bioengineering. The philosophy of microfluidics is to integrate conventional a biological or chemical laboratory onto a chip, which is composed of many components, such as micro pump, valve, mixer, separator, reactor and detector, etc. Microfluidic chip has many advantages over conventional instruments in analytical chemistry, and its applications are rapidly expanding to various fields: clinical diagnostics, high throughput screening for drug, drug delivery, environment monitoring, food monitoring, biology and chemistry, etc. Optical measurement in micro/nanofluidics suffers from conventional optical diffraction limit. New methods that can overcome the diffraction limit are highly demanded.

        Speaker introduction:

              Dr. Wang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA. Dr. Wang received his from Technische Universität Berlin. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in Stanford University. Dr. Wang received Career Award from National Science Foundation (NSF), North American Mixing Forum and Rising Star from the University of South Carolina. As the Principal Investigator, he received the grant from NSF for Major Research Instrumentation. Currently his research interests include nano/microfluidics and biochip, early cancer detection, super-resolution far field nanoscopy based on Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED), nano/microfabrication, fluorescence detection, turbulent and mixing, etc.