Timm Krueger
School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK

Passive separation of blood components in microfluidic devices

There is an increasing interest in passive sorting of particles in microfluidic devices. "Passive" means that the device is designed in such a way that particles follow different trajectories according to the desired separation criteria (e.g. size or shape) without the need for external fields (e.g. electric or acoustic). Particle separation is important for lab-on-chip applications, in particular for enrichment and detection of rare particles or disease diagnosis. I will talk about recent efforts in my group to model the separation of blood components in deterministic lateral displacement devices based on size and deformability.