Nan Zhang,
Associate Professor,
University College Dublin
Dr Nan Zhang is an Associate Professor in Manufacturing and Design at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland. His research covers polymer micro/nano manufacturing, precision manufacturing of plastic microfluidic chips, microfluidic systems for synthesising genetic nanomedicine and molecular diagnostics, manufacturing functional micro/nano structured surfaces, and atomic and close-to-atomic-scale manufacturing. He has been founded by H2020 MSCA ITN Grant as a consortium coordinator, Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland-Commercialization Funding, Irish Research Council etc. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers in Materials Today, Nano Letters and the International Journal of Machine Tool and Manufacture. He was the chair of the 6th and 8th international conferences on polymer replication on the nanoscale (PRN2019, PRN2022). He is the associate editor of the journal “Frontier-Lab on Chip Technology” and a Council member of the Microfluidic Association. His research has generated several patents which have been commercialized or are in the process of being commercialized. He has received the University Research Impact award in 2022, the Year of Invention Award 2024, and has been highlighted as a Rising Star Fellow by UCD.
Precision Manufacturing of Polymeric Microfluidic Devices: Progress from Fast Prototyping Using High Precision DLP Printing and Defect-Free Production via Self-Lubricating Mould Technology
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 at 11:00
Add to Calendar ▼2024-06-25 11:00:002024-06-25 12:00:00Europe/LondonPrecision Manufacturing of Polymeric Microfluidic Devices: Progress from Fast Prototyping Using High Precision DLP Printing and Defect-Free Production via Self-Lubricating Mould TechnologyLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics Europe 2024 in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsRotterdam, The NetherlandsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Microfluidic devices have been used in point-of-care diagnostics, drug development and life science research. After more than 40 years development, microfluidic technology has been becoming a platform technology and reforming the development of the future generation in-vitro diagnostics, bio-pharma and life science. In comparison to the increasing development of advanced applications using microfluidic as a technical base, the manufacturing processes of microfluidic devices is still constrained by the tedious prototyping, which is still time consuming and requires specialized equipment. During production stage, for the high density and high aspect ratio micro structures, demoulding can cause feature damage or distortion, and thus affect the subsequent bonding and overall chip functionality. In the present talk, I would like to share our current progress on high precision prototyping of microfluidics devices by 3D printing based on Digital Light Processing technology, and showcase complex channel 3D printing and hybrid 3D features inside of 2.5D micro channel. Additionally, I would also like to talk about our newly developed novel self-lubricating micro/nano mold technology for defects-free production of plastic microfluidic devices. The demonstration will be highlighted for testing star patterns and microfluidic devices.
Add to Calendar ▼2024-06-24 00:00:002024-06-25 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics Europe 2024Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics Europe 2024 in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsRotterdam, The NetherlandsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Add to Calendar ▼2024-06-25 11:00:002024-06-25 12:00:00Europe/LondonPrecision Manufacturing of Polymeric Microfluidic Devices: Progress from Fast Prototyping Using High Precision DLP Printing and Defect-Free Production via Self-Lubricating Mould TechnologyLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics Europe 2024 in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsRotterdam, The NetherlandsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
