I’m super excited to share that today, my first paper was published! It is now available online at Microsystems and Nanoengineering, the Nature imprint journal for microfluidics and micro/nanotechnology more broadly! (8:72, 2022)

The “graphical abstract” depicts the pathline-level flow fields in microfluidic droplets flowing through both straight (left) and curved (right) channels:

This paper is the culmination of the last 2-3 years of my PhD work, and describes a technique that we developed for generating high-resolution pathline and velocity fields in single and multiphase (droplet) microfluidic flows. The technique is widely accessible to many researchers, requiring only a brightfield microscope, a high-speed camera, and open-source software. The supplemental data includes all of the raw pathline-level 3D flow data, the scripts that we developed for extracting and processing the data, and an expanded Methods section outlining in detail how to use the technique. If you are a researcher in the microfluidic technology development space, and could benefit from empirical 3D microflow mapping, check it out:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-022-00404-z