Energy, Materials, Single Molecule Analysis, and Reconfigurable Systems: New Directions in Optofluidics
Event details
| Date | 07.09.2011 |
| Hour | 11:00 |
| Speaker | David Erickson, Cornell University |
| Location |
MEB10
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
At its most basic level, Optofluidics is focused on enabling or exploiting the precise control or over fluids and light at micro- and nano-scales. Over the past 5 years, these successes in this area has led to the development of many new technologies including from tunable dye lasers, more precise biosensing, and compact microscopy. In this talk I will discuss some new directions to which this same skill set could be applied. In particular I will focus on: photosynthetic fuel production, new tools for single molecule discovery and bottom up material assembly, and light enabled reconfigurable systems. Whenever possible, the ultimate potential of entry into these new fields will be discussed as well as the challenges that must be overcome. A particular focus will be placed on how to upscale optofluidic technology (which to date has been largely chip based) to address problems in these areas (which can be global in scale).
Practical information
- General public
- Free