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We are a group of experimentalists dedicated to solving problems at the interface of engineering, soft matter, and biology! The tool we use is microfluidics. Applications of our work include biochemical sensing and diagnostics, water and energy sustainability.

Open Positions. We are seeking highly motivated postdocs and students in broad areas of engineering, applied physics, biophysics, and analytical chemistry. Please email Prof. Sindy Tang your full CV indicating your background, research interests, and publications.

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News

09.19.2016
Congrats to Ya and Chia for having their paper on "Spatiotemporal periodicity of dislocation dynamics in a two-dimensional microfluidic crystal flowing in a tapered channel" accepted at PNAS!

07.23.2016
Group social! We escaped the room (almost!)

05.12.2016
Congrats to Ya and Jian-wei for publishing their paper on Confinement and viscosity ratio effect on droplet break-up in a concentrated emulsion!

04.15.2016
Congrats to Ming for publishing another paper on Surface-Functionalizable Amphiphilic Nanoparticles for Pickering Emulsions with Designer Fluid-Fluid Interfaces!

02.04.2016
Our paper on methanotrophs in collaboration with environmental engineering just got accepted!

01.25.2016
Sindy gave an invited podium talk at SLAS 2016 in San Diego!!

11.22.2015
Ya represented the group at APS DFD and gave an awesome talk!

10.25.2015
Minkyu is representing the group at MicroTAS 2015 at Gyeongju in Korea!

10.24.2015
Group drip painting at the beach!

10.23.2015
Sindy gave an invited talk at the Nanoscale Science & Engineering Seminar at UC Berkeley!

09.01.2015
We got awarded an NSF grant to support our collaborative work with UCSF to study wound-healing at the single cell level using microfluidics-based microsurgery!

08.07.2015
Fengjiao's paper on "Quantitative detection of cells expressing BlaC using droplet-based microfluidics for use in the diagnosis of tuberculosis" accepted at Biomicrofluidics!

08.01.2015
Group dimsum!

07.10.2015
Group social after clean-up :)

07.08.2015
Ming's paper on Fluorinated Pickering Emulsions with Non-adsorbing Interfaces for Droplet-based Enzymatic Assays accepted at Anal. Chem.!

06.04.2015
Sindy gave an invited talk at the Microfluidics Gordon Research Conference!

05.29.2015
Sindy gave a keynote talk at Ontario-on-a-Chip!

04.30.2015
Our Spring group selfie :)

03.03.2015
Minkyu's paper is featured on the outside front cover of Lab on a Chip!

01.28.2015
Sindy received the prestigious NSF CAREER award!

11.3.2014
Our work on time capsule got highlighted by Stanford News and Smithsonian.com!

9.5.2014
Our time capsule paper selected as Lab on a Chip 2014 HOT Articles and Lab on a Chip Top 10%! Also see highlight in Chemistry World!