Guest Seminar - Acoustofluidics: Acoustic Wave Meets Microscale Fluid Flow for Biomedical Applications
The past two decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth in microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-a-chip, single-cell analysis, and flow cytometry with applications toward chemistry, biology, medicine, pharmacy and material science. Microfluidic technologies for precise manipulation of microscale flows and suspended objects have enabled the rapid development of the aforementioned disciplines and applications. Recently, a novel microfluidic frontier, termed acoustofluidics, has emerged based on integration of microscale fluid mechanics and acoustics. In this talk, I will summarize my recent progress in acoustofluidics research from fundamentals and devices to biomedical applications. The breadth and depth of the acoustofluidic technologies will be introduced by numerous examples including cell separation, droplet flow cytometry, tumoroid-on-a-chip, antibiotic susceptibility test, sono-mechanobiology, cell incubation, cell lysis, as well as fundamental investigation on microscale acoustic radiation, streaming, and heating phenomena.
Dr. Jinsoo Park is an associate professor of School of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Chonnam National University (CNU), Republic of Korea. Prior to joining CNU, he had worked as a research professor in Department of ME at KAIST in 2019. He obtained his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in ME at KAIST in 2013, 2015, and 2019, respectively. He has also received 40+ awards and honors including Young Engineer Awards at The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (2022) and Korean Society of Visualization (2021), International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM) Academic Award (2019), and many Best Paper Awards in academic conferences. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals including Advanced Science, Lab on a Chip, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Microsystems & Nanoengineering, and Analytical Chemistry with 11 cover articles. He is currently serving a board member of Acoustofluidics Society and a TPC member of microTAS. His research interest lies in acoustofluidics and elasto-inertial microfluidics from fundamentals to biomedical applications, and flow visualization.