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	Home People Current Projects Recent Projects General Research Interests Publications Presentations Micro/Nanofluidics Textbook Textbook Resources: Video, Powerpoints, Errata GRC on Circulating Tumor Cells and Metastasis login to: internal Wiki go to: Student Blog Teaching Advising Giving to KirbyLab Cornell Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory The Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory, directed by Professor Brian Kirby, is a research group in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University devoted to research on understanding and application of micro- and nanofluidic systems. Microfluidics and nanofluidics describe fluid-mechanical regimes and devices defined by the length scale of the flow channels, the techniques for making the devices, and the dominant physics. Features Student blog Keeping up with Kirbylab Circulating tumor cell capture Enabling personalized chemotherapeutics for cancer patients Laser-microfabrication of nanoporous membranes Phase separation polymerization allows control of protein transport in microdevices Fluid mechanics at the nanoscale How nanofabrication and membrane technology create new technological applications of teeny tiny fluid physics The zeta potential How we model and predict electroosmotic phenomena in microdevices Microbioanalytical devices The lab-on-a-chip paradigm Fredrik poses with geneticist Nancy Jenkins (The Methodist Hospital Research Institute) and the band saw. Summer 2013. Schematic of flow, potental, and charge density at diffuse polymer interfaces (see ref here) Coaxial transmission line sample cell used for high-frequency characterization of cell suspensions. Growth of fibroblasts grown on compliant (top) and stiff (bottom) matrices show the importance of matrix stiffness in lipogenic differentiation(see ref here). We have collaborated with Claudia Fischbach's lab to use our photocrosslinked alginate matrices (see refs here and here ) to study adipose progenitor cells.   Microfluidics/Nanofluidics Laboratory, 282 Grumman Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 email webmaster with comments/corrections/questions