Abstract
Microfluidics is a science that deals with small amounts of fluids at the microscale. The confinement brings in many advantages such as reduced reagent consumption, shortened analysis time, increased throughput and potential for portable systems. These advantages and others make microfluidic systems ideal enabling platform technologies that can be applied in a wide range of applications spanning from material synthesis, life science research, drug screening and environmental monitoring. This presentation summarizes Ren’s work on microfluidics that is dedicated to protein fractionation and soft wearable robots towards well-being. Protein fractionation techniques will include a suite of techniques such as isoelectric focusing, free flow focusing and pH elution. The soft wearable robots enabled by microfluidics will start with a brief introduction of soft robots and follow up with the unique angle that Ren’s team took for developing inexpensive, comfortable daily wearable assistive robots. Its demonstration and validation towards patients suffering from arthritis will be provided and discussed.
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