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 microfluidiq...
Subscribe to the channel : / thelutetiumproject
Follow us on Twitter : / theluproject
Visit our website: www.lutetium.paris/en
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RELATED BOOK:
Patrick Tabeling, Introduction to microfluidics, Oxford University Press (2005) 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) 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) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
Sandia National Laboratories News Releases, New five-level layering process pioneered by Sandia promises more reliable, complex micromachines (1999) 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) www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1...
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IMAGES:
Microfluidic chip from Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Proxima www.institut-pgg.com
Blood vessels, The Franklin Institute www.fi.edu/heart/blood-vessels
Closeup of skeeterbugs floating on the water surface, Daniel Schweinert, Shutterstock www.shutterstock.com/video/cl...
Suncus Etruscus, Wikimedia Commons, Trebol-A commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Gear with ant for scale, Wikimedia Commons, Denis Elbl, KIT 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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The Lutetium Project is a PSL students’ initiative conducted as part of IDEX ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL and funded by:
PSL Research University - www.univ-psl.fr
ESPCI Paris - www.espci.fr
Espace des sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes - www.espgg.org
ESPCI Alumni - espci.alumni.paris
le Fonds ESPCI Paris - www.espci.fr/fr/nous-soutenir...
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Пікірлер: 26

  • @artifinch824
    @artifinch8245 жыл бұрын

    I've actually found that there are shockingly few resources (well, videos, at least) that communicate the reason we use microfluidics at all! I've always thought they were interesting, but pointless, but this has helped me understand that my macroscopic intuition was faulty! Great video!

  • @TheLutetiumProject
    @TheLutetiumProject7 жыл бұрын

    Hi there everyone! We're going back to the origins of the Lutetium Project with this exploration of the physics at the microscale. This video is actually among the very first ones we shot, more than a year ago! It's the first chapter of a three-part series. But before jumping into the actual microfluidics, we felt the need to explain from a theoretical point of view why making stuff smaller is compelling. This is why there are less experiments than usual in this video. No worries though, for the next part of the series we're going to go to the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Institute for Microfluidics and show you very neat experiments! We hope you enjoy the video ;-)

  • @Ausdb

    @Ausdb

    7 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video!

  • @geraldmalone3915
    @geraldmalone39153 жыл бұрын

    It is extraordinary that such fundamental laws of physics can be explained to interested lay viewers is a succinct and comprehensible way. Bravo!!! How have I lived until now without knowing all this?

  • @robertferraro236
    @robertferraro2363 жыл бұрын

    Excellent production and presentation! Why don't you guys have a million subs? You should have!

  • @saeidmollaei2163
    @saeidmollaei21637 жыл бұрын

    Interesting as always. Thank you.

  • @Mauxbius
    @Mauxbius5 жыл бұрын

    Well put together!

  • @rexmundi8154
    @rexmundi81543 жыл бұрын

    Very well done. Thanks

  • @atti1120
    @atti11203 жыл бұрын

    great video, great explanation

  • @naziasultana5665
    @naziasultana56652 жыл бұрын

    Appreciable

  • @nishantshah6937
    @nishantshah69374 жыл бұрын

    Very nice and informative

  • @JimmyDeLock
    @JimmyDeLock5 жыл бұрын

    Super cool

  • @hassanalhakeem5664
    @hassanalhakeem56645 жыл бұрын

    very interesting

  • @dhonors999
    @dhonors9997 жыл бұрын

    Do you know of any good resources for doing low cost microfluidics experiments at home? I'm super excited for this series, keep up the good work!

  • @samuelwarshaw9480

    @samuelwarshaw9480

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dylan Honors you could use shrink wrap

  • @AmaroqStarwind
    @AmaroqStarwind3 жыл бұрын

    The chemical computing community should try to embrace microfluidics. That would allow the emerging field of chemical computing to advance at a much greater pace.

  • @monishak3811
    @monishak38115 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @cheNafisaIslam
    @cheNafisaIslam6 жыл бұрын

    Why is heat loss a function of L? Not L2? As in function of surface area?

  • @cheNafisaIslam

    @cheNafisaIslam

    6 жыл бұрын

    Okay. Hadn't thought of that. I guess in my mind I was thinking of the convectional losses. Hence the L2. Also high school biology knowledge: smaller the animal the larger the surface area-volume ratio. But I guess whichever way you look at it smaller animals need to be careful about there heat losses :)

  • @thetruthexperiment
    @thetruthexperiment4 жыл бұрын

    She’s neat

  • @vanarppayhsak1330
    @vanarppayhsak13305 жыл бұрын

    Wowwww

  • @Yagyaansh
    @Yagyaansh4 жыл бұрын

    who else wasn't able to concentrate!

  • @mactheknife4786
    @mactheknife47865 жыл бұрын

    Just going to find myself some Etruscan Shrews to leave out of water until they roast themselves... Your words not mine :)

  • @sabermohammadi4944
    @sabermohammadi49443 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video. But would you please talk slower? When you talk so fast non-native listeners can't fully understand what you are saying.

  • @na-chan163
    @na-chan1633 жыл бұрын

    too distracting camera shifts.

  • @monishak3811
    @monishak38115 жыл бұрын

    👍