报告题目：Dripping, jetting, drops and wetting: the magic of microfluidics 奇妙的微流控技术
时间：1月12号（星期五）上午10:00
地点：唐楼B501
摘要：
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. 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.
报告人简介：
Prof. David A. Weitz is a famous professor in School of Engineering and Applied science at Harvard University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Weitz has served as a professor in School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University since 1999, director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Harvard University since 2001, co-director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative since 2001, and a professor in Department of System Biology at Harvard University since 2006.
Prof. Weitz is a well-known expert in the fields of soft functional materials, colloids, biophysics, biological materials, microfluidics, digital PCR and so on. His research has a huge impact on the international academic society. So far, Prof. Weitz has published more than 500 high-level peer-reviewed papers, including around 30 papers in Science, Nature, Cell and Nature Biotechnology. His work has been cited by more than 58000 times with an h-index of 129 and he has been invited to present over 500 academic talks all over the world. Prof Weitz has been authorized more than 60 patents, and has started up 12 new high-tech companies.
