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Microfluidics at the University of Michigan

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Burns Research Group
Dept of Chemical Engineering
3212 H.H. Dow Bldg
2300 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136

Ph.D. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, 1986
University of Pennsylvania

M.S. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, 1983
University of Pennsylvania

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1981
University of Notre Dame

maburns at umich.edu

More information can be found here.

B.S.E. Electrical Engineering, 1992
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

brianj at umich.edu

M.S. Biochemical Engineering, 2004
Zhejiang University

B.S. Bioengineering, 2001
Zhejiang University

Multiphase Droplet Bioreaction Systems

F.Wang, M. Yang, M. A. Burns, Microfabricated valveless devices for thermal bioreactions based on diffusion-limited evaporation, Lab On a Chip 8 (1) (2008) 88–97.

fangw at umich.edu

M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2004
Stanford University

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2004
Stanford University

Project: Thermally Mediated Pressure Regulator

D.S. Chang, S.M. Langelier, R.I. Zeitoun, and M.A. Burns, A Venturi microregulator array module for distributed pressure control (submitted).

D.S. Chang, S.M. Langelier, and M.A. Burns, An electronic Venturi-based pressure microregulator, Lab on a Chip 7(12) (2007) 1791-1799.

Email: dustinc at umich.edu

M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2007
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

B.S.Chemical and Biological Engineering, 2005
University of Colorado, Boulder

B.S.Environmental Engineering, 2005
University of Colorado, Boulder

Acoustic Flow Control

S.M. Langelier and M.A. Burns, Analysis of periodic acoustic band-gap microstructures, (In preparation)

S.M. Langelier, D.S. Chang, R.I. Zeitoun, and M.A. Burns, Acoustically-driven programmable liquid motion using resonance cavities, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(31) (2009) 12617-12622.

langelie at umich.edu

M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2007
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2006
University of Maryland, College Park

Producing Colloidal Particles with Configurable Anisotropy

R.I. Zeitoun, Z. Chen, M.A. Burns, Transverse imaging and simulation of dsDNA electrophoresis in microfabrciated glass channels, Electrophoresis 29 (2008) 4768-4774.

rzeitoun at umich.edu

Bacterial Cultivation and Screening in Microdroplets

pjhyang at umich.edu

B.S. Bioengineering, 2008
University of California, Berkeley

isinn at umich.edu

B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2008
University of California, Los Angeles

Microrheometer for Measuring Blood Properties

elivak at umich.edu