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Small Matters Video Contest
About the Contest
This contest highlights not only the exciting scientific merit of work conducted in the area of microfluidics and nanofluidics, but also the aesthetic and artistic qualities of that science. Contest entries will be selected by a panel of scientists from the Editorial Advisory Board of Biomicrofluidics based upon criteria of scientific merit within the journal’s focus and coverage, originality, and artistry/aesthetic appeal.
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View last year's winning entry:
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Microfluidic Gradient Formation by Maxwell-Wagner Polarization at an Aqueous Electric Interface This work integrates components from AC electrokinetics, microfluidics, and cell biology to produce tunable spatial chemical gradients in a microfluidic device for studying directed cell migration. I explore a new type of Maxwell Wagner polarization for the injection of aqueous liquid across a liquid-liquid interface. The rate of injection is tunable and used to manipulate fluid much the same way dielectrophoresis is used on bioparticles; fluid can be injected into different streamlines and passed downstream to a gradient generator only when the electric field is active. The phenomenon is used to generate and control the concentration and direction of spatial chemical gradients. Finally, the controllable gradient is used to explore directed cell migration. In particular, the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoidium is shown to respond to an induced chemical gradient by migrating from low to high concentrations of cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) only when the electric field is active. The end result is a new type of liquid-liquid polarization that can controllably inject fluid to create controllable microenvironments for biological studies. Supplementary Materials |
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Advantages of Submitting
All finalists will be published in a special section of Biomicrofluidics, and their videos will be on public display at the 3rd conference on Advances in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics in Dalian, China, 23-26 May 2012.
One Grand Prize winner will receive an iPad® 2!
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Send an email to editdev@aip.org providing the following:
Your name
Your email
Your institution (if applicable)
A brief description of the video
The name of the video file
Upon receipt of this email, you will receive a link to the upload site and a confirmation email following a successful upload.
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2012
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Accepted filetypes: .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .asf, .asx, .flv, .wmv, .wma, .mov, .3gp, .mp4, .swf.
File size limit: 500MB
By submitting a file for this contest, you agree to allow AIP to use your video and images, of which you retain full ownership, for promotional uses tied directly to the Small Matters video contest and Biomicrofluidics. If you feel that your work has been displayed in an inappropriate or exploitative way, please contact us at the above email.
Biomicrofluidics is published by the American Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) publisher whose mission is the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of the science of physics and its applications to human welfare.
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