Moran Bercovici,
Associate Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering; Head, Technion Microfluidic Technologies Laboratory,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Moran Bercovici is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His lab combines experimental, analytical, and computational tools to study problems characterized by coupling between fluid mechanics, heat transfer, electric fields, chemical reactions, and biological processes. He is equally interested in understanding basic physical mechanisms and in leveraging them to create new tools and technologies across different disciplines. His current focus areas are in rapid prototyping, adaptive optics, microscale flow control, configurable microstructures, and lab-on-chip systems. Moran holds a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, worked as postdoctoral fellow at Stanford School of Medicine, and was a Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He authored and co-authored over 50 articles in top peer-reviewed journals, is the inventor of more than 20 patents, and is the recipient of several awards including the EU ERC Starting Grant, and the Blavatnik Prize – considered one of the most prestigious awards to young scientists in Israel.
Microscale Flow Patterning
Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 11:45
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The ability to manipulate fluids at the microscale is a key element of
any lab-on-a-chip platform, enabling core functionalities such as liquid
mixing, splitting and transport of molecules and particles.
Lab-on-a-chip devices are commonly divided in two main families:
continuous phase devices, and discrete phase (droplets) devices. While a
large number of mechanisms are available for precise control of
droplets on a large scale, microscale control of continuous phases
remains a substantial challenge. In a traditional continuous-flow
microfluidic device, fluids are pumped actively (e.g. by pressure
gradients, electro-osmotic flow) or passively (e.g. capillary driven)
through a fixed microfluidic network, making the device geometry and
functionality intimately dependent on one another (e.g. DLD, inertial
mixer, H-separator, etc.). The advent of on-chip microfluidic valves
brought more flexibility in routing fluids through microfluidic
networks, adding a dynamic dimension to the static geometrical network.
However, the number of degrees of freedom of valve-based systems is
restricted by their dependence on bulky pneumatic lines (regulators,
pressure systems, controllers), which are difficult to scale down in
size and cost. In this talk I will present our ongoing work leveraging
non-uniform EOF and thermocapillary flows to control flow patterns in
microfluidic chambers. By setting the spatial distribution of surface
potential or a spatial temperature distribution, we demonstrate the
ability to dictate desired flow patterns without the use of physical
walls. We believe that such flow control concepts will help break the
existing link between geometry and functionality, bringing new
capabilities to on-chip analytical methods.
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