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Dense suspension of finite-sizeprolate ellipsoids settling in
still fluid. Authors: X. Jiang,
C. Xu, L. Zhao
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Professor Anke Lindner
University Paris Diderot (FRA)
Dynamics of rigid and flexible fibers in complex microfluidic geometries: Transport properties and sorting potential
Abstract:
The understanding of microparticle transport in flows and complex environments is crucial in numerous situations, ranging from the depollution of oceans to prevention of bacterial contamination in soils or medical devices, to the development of particle separation devices or even motion inside the cell nucleus. In most cases, microparticles have complex shapes and properties, as elongated or more complex forms, they can be deformable and, in some cases, self-propelled. These particles are interacting with flows in complex environments such as bifurcating networks, porous media or the crowded interieur of the cell. Particle transport then results from the interplay between particle properties, flow properties and the characteristics of the environment. Here we will investigate the transport of rigid and flexible fibers in complex flows using microfluidic model systems. We will address the question of individual particle dynamics and morphologies for polymeric fibers and actin filaments and will discuss their role in particle transport. The knowledge gained in simple flows will be used to address transport in the presence of obstacles or though pillar arrays. We will address the sorting potential of such geometries.
Brief Bio:
Dr. Anke Lindner joined the physics department of Paris University (UP) in 2013 and holds a full professor position there. Her research group is part of the PMMH lab at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie (ESPCI), Paris. She obtained her PhD from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris in 2000 and her Habilitation from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris in 2010. She has worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company, in Zurich, Switzerland and as a Post-Doctoral fellow at ESPCI. Prior to her appointment at UPD held an assistant professor position at UPMC. Her research topics can best be summarized as ''flow of complex fluids'' and cover a broad range of topics from rheology of granular or active suspensions, to adhesion of soft viscoelastic materials and more recently fluid structure interactions, microfluidics and elastic flow instabilities. She has published more than 80 papers in journals as PRL, Phys. Fluids, PNAS, Lab on Chip, JNNFM, Nature Communication, Nature Physics, Advanced Science or JFM. She has recently been awarded an ERC consolidator grant and became a fellow of the APS-DFD in November 2019. She is the Maurice Couette award winner of the French Society of Rheology 2019 and received the silver medal of the CNRS in 2021.
University Paris Diderot (FRA)
Dynamics of rigid and flexible fibers in complex microfluidic geometries: Transport properties and sorting potential
Abstract:
The understanding of microparticle transport in flows and complex environments is crucial in numerous situations, ranging from the depollution of oceans to prevention of bacterial contamination in soils or medical devices, to the development of particle separation devices or even motion inside the cell nucleus. In most cases, microparticles have complex shapes and properties, as elongated or more complex forms, they can be deformable and, in some cases, self-propelled. These particles are interacting with flows in complex environments such as bifurcating networks, porous media or the crowded interieur of the cell. Particle transport then results from the interplay between particle properties, flow properties and the characteristics of the environment. Here we will investigate the transport of rigid and flexible fibers in complex flows using microfluidic model systems. We will address the question of individual particle dynamics and morphologies for polymeric fibers and actin filaments and will discuss their role in particle transport. The knowledge gained in simple flows will be used to address transport in the presence of obstacles or though pillar arrays. We will address the sorting potential of such geometries.
Brief Bio:
Dr. Anke Lindner joined the physics department of Paris University (UP) in 2013 and holds a full professor position there. Her research group is part of the PMMH lab at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie (ESPCI), Paris. She obtained her PhD from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris in 2000 and her Habilitation from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris in 2010. She has worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company, in Zurich, Switzerland and as a Post-Doctoral fellow at ESPCI. Prior to her appointment at UPD held an assistant professor position at UPMC. Her research topics can best be summarized as ''flow of complex fluids'' and cover a broad range of topics from rheology of granular or active suspensions, to adhesion of soft viscoelastic materials and more recently fluid structure interactions, microfluidics and elastic flow instabilities. She has published more than 80 papers in journals as PRL, Phys. Fluids, PNAS, Lab on Chip, JNNFM, Nature Communication, Nature Physics, Advanced Science or JFM. She has recently been awarded an ERC consolidator grant and became a fellow of the APS-DFD in November 2019. She is the Maurice Couette award winner of the French Society of Rheology 2019 and received the silver medal of the CNRS in 2021.
