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... ↓ More infos and links in the description ↓ ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- LINKS: French version: https://youtu.be/oPJfXSb5QYw Subscribe to the channel : https://youtube.com/thelutetiumproject Follow us on Twitter : https://twitter.com/TheLuProject Visit our website: https://www.lutetium.paris/en ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- RELATED BOOK: Patrick Tabeling, Introduction to microfluidics, Oxford University Press (2005) https://books.google.fr/books?id=S9ATDAAAQBAJ ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- 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) http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.1650542 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) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.200902192/abstract Sandia National Laboratories News Releases, New five-level layering process pioneered by Sandia promises more reliable, complex micromachines (1999) http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR1999/layer.htm Cornell Chronicle, Smallest guitar, about the size of a human blood cell, illustrates new technology for nano-sized electromechanical devices (1997) http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/07/worlds-smallest-silicon-mechanical-devices-are-made-cornell ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- IMAGES: Microfluidic chip from Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Proxima https://www.institut-pgg.com Blood vessels, The Franklin Institute https://www.fi.edu/heart/blood-vessels Closeup of skeeterbugs floating on the water surface, Daniel Schweinert, Shutterstock https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-11013299-stock-footage-closeup-of-skeeterbugs-floating-on-the-water-surface.html Suncus Etruscus, Wikimedia Commons, Trebol-A https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suncus_etruscus.jpg Gear with ant for scale, Wikimedia Commons, Denis Elbl, KIT https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ant_with_gear.jpg ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- 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 – https://www.univ-psl.fr ESPCI Paris – https://www.espci.fr Espace des sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – https://www.espgg.org ESPCI Alumni – https://espci.alumni.paris le Fonds ESPCI Paris – https://www.espci.fr/fr/nous-soutenir/le-fonds-de-l-espci/ ----------------------------------------­-----------------------------