威尼斯娱人城官网

Lecture：Active Microfluidics: Interfacing Biology, Physics, and Engineering  at the Micro/Nano Scale
Speaker：Tony Jun Huang, Associate Professor  of  Pennsylvania State University 
Time：June 1st, 2011
Venus：F203, Mechanical Building A
Inviter：Prof. Chang-Yin ZHAO (Tel:34204541)

ABSTRACT：
Microfluidics technology allows the precise control and manipulation of small volumes of fluid (nano to micro liter) and small targets of interest (e.g., cells and molecules). It is a unique tool that not only facilitates a fundamental understanding of multi-physics at the micro/nano scale, but also enables the integration and automation of complex tasks that are difficult to achieve otherwise and can significantly benefit both fundamental biological studies and clinical applications (e.g., medical diagnostics and therapeutics). In this talk, I will present a few microfluidics-based technologies developed at the Penn State Biomedical Nano-Elelctro-Mechanical-Systems (BioNEMS) lab, including miniature flow cytometry, acoustic tweezers, tunable optofluidic lens, and active molecular plasmonics.

BIOGRAPHY
Tony Jun Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Energy and Power Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively.  His research is focused on (1) multi-physics of active nanostructures, and (2) multi-physics of micro/nano fluidics and lab-on-a-chip systems. He has authored or coauthored over 130 technical publications and six book chapters in these fields. The journal publications he authored/co-authored has been cited at ISI for over 1000 times. His work has been highlighted as news in the journals Nature, Nature Photonics, and Nature Materials, and reported in National Science Foundation (USA) and many public media such as US News and World Report, Yahoo News, Live Science, Medical News Today, Science Daily, Wired Science, Popular Mechanics, Highlights in Chemical Technology, Nanotechnology Now, and R&D Magazine. He serves as Vice Chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Nanotechnology Council and chair of the ASME Society-Wide Micro/Nano Technology Forum. He has received many awards and honors such as 2005 Outstanding Ph.D. Award from UCLA, 2006 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, 2010 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, and 2011 Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Outstanding Research Award. More information about him and his research group can be found at www.esm.psu.edu/huang/.